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  • News

    November 14, 2012

    Behind Laos's yellow rain and tears

    A controversial Radiolab episode opens old wounds and raises countless questions for Minnesota's Hmong

  • Movies

    October 10, 2012

    Argo bargains for Hollywood love

    Ben Affleck's return holds out hope for classic Hollywood

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2012

    Keith Ellison on freedom of speech: "It's a good and bad thing" [INTERVIEW PART 3]

    As the first Muslim elected to Congress, Keith Ellison often serves as an Islam spokesman of sorts.Last week was especially difficult in that respect, as violent protests erupted across the Middle East in response to an anti-Islam film trailer published on YouTube.SEE ALSO:-- Keith Ellison: "Let's s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    Michele Bachmann comes out in favor of torture

    David Gregory and Michele Bachmann on Meet the Press this weekend. ​Michele Bachmann longs for the good ol' days. You know, back when George W. Bush ran this country, and terms like "health care reform" and "stimulus package" were distant from our everyday vocabularies. Back when a man could ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Michele Bachmann gets a peek at dead Osama bin Laden pix

    Bin Laden: He's dead. Bachmann says so.​One of the perks of Rep. Michele Bachmann's being on the House Intelligence Committee turns out to be that she gets to look at photos of a very dead Osama bin Laden before the rest of the world -- which will have to wait either until the pix are leaked, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Everything you thought you knew about the killing of Osama bin Laden is wrong

    A story too good to be true?​The story of the killing of Osama bin Laden at the hands of Navy SEALS would have been compelling stuff in its own right. But it turns out the story ain't quite what it used to be. Here are the big headlines you probably thought were true about bin Laden's killing -- ... More >>

  • Movies

    April 6, 2011

    Hanna: A tech-savvy fairy tale

    Saoirse Ronan is a Tilda Swinton in training

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    Michele Bachmann will guard our intelligence

    Michele Bachmann is named to the House Intelligence Committee.​She missed out on a House leadership post. She got frozen out of a slot on the Ways and Means Committee. She even lost "Lie of the Year." What's left for Michele Bachmann? Intelligence.

  • Movies

    June 23, 2010

    Tom Cruise ruins Knight and Day

    Dude, just stop talking

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    BP oil spill, Bush's war: Top 10 Epic Bad Calls

    BY CP STAFFThe goat of the week is umpire Jim Joyce, who cost pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game with a blown call at first base. While this will surely go down in history as one of sport's all-time great fuck-ups, Joyce is far from the first person to screw up at a crucial moment.

  • Movies

    March 10, 2010

    Matt Damon in Green Zone is nonstop havoc

    Movie confirms the big WMD lie

  • Movies

    January 27, 2010

    Mel Gibson's Edge of Darkness

    Detective investigating activist daughter's death discovers corporate cover-up

  • News

    January 20, 2010

    Tim Pawlenty joins Glenn Beck

    Governor shakes hands with crazy

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Weekend movie guide: See it or flee it?

    You've got 10 bucks and two hours, and you don't want to waste any of it. We can help.

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    More on those CIA Death Squads Sy Hersh told us about

    Rachel Maddow helps us connect the dots.

  • News

    February 25, 2009

    Guantanamo's final days

    America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp and Jihad looms

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2008

    007: Man of the Left

    Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above"Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above," said Noam Chomsky last week. "They come out of struggles from below. And the answer to what's next depends on people like you. Nobody else can answer it."In Haiti and Bolivia, Chomsky went o ... More >>

  • Movies

    October 8, 2008

    Aptly timed Body Of Lies is tempting terror thriller

    Ridley Scott's latest delivers the post-9/11 tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve

  • Movies

    August 27, 2008

    Logic is as elusive as the terrorists in the uneven but entertaining thriller Traitor

    Don Cheadle plays a soldier in the U.S. Special Forces, a job (and a country) he turns his back on

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2008

    MC Rove Will Be in Da House Tomorrow

    Don Cheadle plays a soldier in the U.S. Special Forces, a job (and a country) he turns his back on

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2008

    Novak sticks a fork in Pawlenty's VP chances

    Don Cheadle plays a soldier in the U.S. Special Forces, a job (and a country) he turns his back on

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2008

    Daniel Ellsberg: Beyond the Pentagon Papers

    Don Cheadle plays a soldier in the U.S. Special Forces, a job (and a country) he turns his back on

  • Movies

    December 19, 2007

    A hard-partying congressman helps rescue Afghans from the Ruskies in Mike Nichols's good-time Charlie Wilson's War

    Don Cheadle plays a soldier in the U.S. Special Forces, a job (and a country) he turns his back on

  • Columns

    August 29, 2007

    Free Will Astrology

    Don Cheadle plays a soldier in the U.S. Special Forces, a job (and a country) he turns his back on

  • News

    February 15, 2006

    Bin Laden's Game

    Most officials thought last month's Osama bin Laden tape was no big deal— maybe even a gesture of weakness. Author and ex-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who founded the Agency's bin Laden unit 10 years ago, thinks they're dead wrong.

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2005

    Rove/Plame: Maybe today, or not; maybe this week, or not

    Most officials thought last month's Osama bin Laden tape was no big deal— maybe even a gesture of weakness. Author and ex-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who founded the Agency's bin Laden unit 10 years ago, thinks they're dead wrong.

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2005

    Rove/Plame: a Dick in the hand

    Most officials thought last month's Osama bin Laden tape was no big deal— maybe even a gesture of weakness. Author and ex-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who founded the Agency's bin Laden unit 10 years ago, thinks they're dead wrong.

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2005

    Rove/Plame: Judy testimony continues today; WSJ points to widening probe

    Most officials thought last month's Osama bin Laden tape was no big deal— maybe even a gesture of weakness. Author and ex-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who founded the Agency's bin Laden unit 10 years ago, thinks they're dead wrong.

  • Columns

    August 31, 2005

    Free Will Astrology

    Most officials thought last month's Osama bin Laden tape was no big deal— maybe even a gesture of weakness. Author and ex-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who founded the Agency's bin Laden unit 10 years ago, thinks they're dead wrong.

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2005

    7/26: Morning Communique

    Most officials thought last month's Osama bin Laden tape was no big deal— maybe even a gesture of weakness. Author and ex-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who founded the Agency's bin Laden unit 10 years ago, thinks they're dead wrong.

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2005

    Rove/Plame: the smoking gun?

    Most officials thought last month's Osama bin Laden tape was no big deal— maybe even a gesture of weakness. Author and ex-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who founded the Agency's bin Laden unit 10 years ago, thinks they're dead wrong.

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2005

    Smoking banana peels

    Most officials thought last month's Osama bin Laden tape was no big deal— maybe even a gesture of weakness. Author and ex-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who founded the Agency's bin Laden unit 10 years ago, thinks they're dead wrong.

  • Music

    September 1, 2004

    Various Artists: Radio India and The Conet Project

    Most officials thought last month's Osama bin Laden tape was no big deal— maybe even a gesture of weakness. Author and ex-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who founded the Agency's bin Laden unit 10 years ago, thinks they're dead wrong.

  • News

    June 30, 2004

    9/11-Another Minnesota Connection?

    Nancy Hanlon says she met and talked with one of the 9/11 hijackers in a Rochester, Minnesota bar just weeks before the attack. Is it true? There's no telling for sure. Is her story plausible? Yes.

  • Columns

    June 9, 2004

    A Child's ABCs of Terrorism

    Nancy Hanlon says she met and talked with one of the 9/11 hijackers in a Rochester, Minnesota bar just weeks before the attack. Is it true? There's no telling for sure. Is her story plausible? Yes.

  • Books

    June 18, 2003

    Liar's Poker

    Nancy Hanlon says she met and talked with one of the 9/11 hijackers in a Rochester, Minnesota bar just weeks before the attack. Is it true? There's no telling for sure. Is her story plausible? Yes.

  • Books

    June 18, 2003

    Our Man In Botswana

    A failing marriage, a lousy CIA assignment, and an AIDS crisis add up to a novel as big as a country

  • News

    October 2, 2002

    Artistic License, Revoked

    The war on terror is keeping musicians out of the U.S.

  • Books

    May 15, 2002

    Viva Vin Weber

    A Minnesota tie to the ill-fated coup in Venezuela

  • Music

    October 4, 2000

    Space Is the Place

    Skye Klad rocket away from Earth into a lurid world beyond

  • News

    February 16, 2000

    Bury My Heart

    For years it has been whispered that the 1976 slaying of American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Aquash was an inside job. Now a new rash of accusations aims squarely at local heroes Clyde and Vernon Bellecourt.

  • Movies

    November 11, 1998

    Fighting Back

    For years it has been whispered that the 1976 slaying of American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Aquash was an inside job. Now a new rash of accusations aims squarely at local heroes Clyde and Vernon Bellecourt.

  • News

    July 29, 1998

    Chemical Imbalance

    How Paul Thelander turned radios into gold, wind into spirits, and chemicals into a cocktail that might have saved the world.

  • Feature

    September 24, 1997

    Pulling the Plug

    How Paul Thelander turned radios into gold, wind into spirits, and chemicals into a cocktail that might have saved the world.

  • Music

    September 10, 1997

    Star Child

    How Paul Thelander turned radios into gold, wind into spirits, and chemicals into a cocktail that might have saved the world.

  • Feature

    February 17, 1997

    Buy This President

    How Paul Thelander turned radios into gold, wind into spirits, and chemicals into a cocktail that might have saved the world.

  • News

    November 6, 1996

    October Surprises

    How Paul Thelander turned radios into gold, wind into spirits, and chemicals into a cocktail that might have saved the world.

  • News

    September 11, 1996

    CLINTON WATCH

    Bombs Away

  • Movies

    August 7, 1996

    On the Lame

    Bombs Away

  • News

    June 26, 1996

    Atun Alba:

    Cocaine, Tuna, and Free Trade

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