Electronic Pen

Robert Dreyfuss The Obama administration can either move forward with a real peace plan for Palestine and Israel or do what AIPAC wants, and continue calling for endless negotiations.

Katrina vanden Heuvel Blue Dogs in the House and the conservative Democrats like Montana's Max Baucus in the Senate are helping to cripple real healthcare reform.

• Greg Kaufmann: Baucus's Party?

Babak Sarfaraz The top candidate to replace the ailing Ayatollah Khamenei may be both a clerical traditionalist and a modernizer.

John Nichols If Obama wants to change our healthcare system, he will have to work every bit as hard as he did last year to win the presidency.

Jeremy Scahill The private security company, facing charges in a US court for killing and injuring Iraqis, is attempting to silence its victims.

Melissa Harris-Lacewell When police arrested Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., they managed to handcuff and detain the living embodiment of post-racial possibility.

William Greider The Fed is at the zenith of its influence and has extraordinary powers. Yet the extreme irregularity of its behavior is producing a legitimacy crisis for the central bank.

Robert Scheer The news that Congress might actually stop production of a high-profit weapons system because it fills no legitimate function is a considerable victory for President Obama, Secretary of Defense Gates and logic.

John Nichols They're not exactly dismantling the military-industrial complex, but members of Congress are learning to say 'no.'

• Chris Hayes: Cut Military Budget
• Chalmers Johnson: How to Deal with America's Empire of Bases