Halliburton Company

The Fracking Fiasco

America's latest gold rush portends the greatest environmental disaster of a generation

Critics' Picks: Seun Kuti, Perfume Genius, Cults, and more

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80

Drudge dogs Franken on iPhone, completely misses the point

Matt Drudge​Here we are, two years into Al Franken's first term as a U.S. senator, and Matt Drudge is still making jokes about Franken's former career as a comedian. Or maybe the famously conservative news aggregator is irked that Franken, an unapologetic liberal, is dogging tech companies that h ... More >>

Off! at Triple Rock Social Club, 4/3/11

Photos by Ben Clark​Off! April 3, 2011 Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis Considering the pedigree of the band, this show should have been different, better. Off!'s members hail from such revered punk rock bands (Circle Jerks, Redd Kross, Rocket From the Crypt, Burning Brides, among others) tha ... More >>

Halliburton and KBR back off on Jamie Leigh Jones case that inspired Al Franken's anti-rape law

Jones says she was gang-raped in 2005 by other KBR employees and then locked in a shipping container when she tried to report the attack.

Halliburton: Woman who inspired Franken's anti-rape law is a liar

The giant defense contractor is already the object of scorn for profiteering off the war in Iraq with amoral abandon.

Republicans still steamed over Franken's rape amendment

A two-month-old vote on a bill to protect rape victims still ties Republican senators in knots.

Obama's bank regulation: Doomed to fail?

Administration lax on cleaning up AIG, Bear Stearns, and Lehman Brothers

Electrocute U.S. servicemen, win $35.4 million Iraq contract

After faulty wiring kills a Minnesota sailor, KBR gets more electrical work.

Iraq for Sale

Surge This

Breaking Out of the Pack of Iraq War Docs, 'No End in Sight' Devastates.

Concert Highlights for the Week of May 9 - May 15

Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha

9/25 Morning Communiqué

9/19 Morning Communiqué

Modest Martsch

Built to Spill's Doug Martsch on the difference between being a guitar god and a guitar guy

6/16: Morning Communique

5/11: Morning Communique

Gary Shteyngart: Absurdistan

French Revolution

With French food and Belgian beers, St. Paul's new Margaux puts a little spring in the city's step

3/29: Morning Communique

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1/23: Morning Communique

9/20: Morning Communique

Drained but still marching

9/13: Morning Communique

9/5: Morning Communique

Cavalcade of Exploding Justice!

7/29: Morning Communique

6/30: Morning Communique

6/22: Morning Communique

Add It Up: Mpls Council Member Finds Hidden Fees in Stadium Deal

The city isn't contributing any money toward the Twins ballpark--on paper anyway. One city leader does the math.

The Norman Conquest

The Undoing of America

Gore Vidal on war for oil, politics-free elections, and the late, great U.S. Constitution.

Next week in CP:
Gore Vidal interview

The John Birkenstock Society

Young yahoos find college Republicans too liberal

Bush's Awful Mess

I've served in Iraq, and that's why I can't vote for this president again

Keep on Rockin' in the Free World

The first Tuesday in October, the first Tuesday in November

That Sly Ol' Fox

Our favorite 'Candidate' returns--to Madison Square Garden

Space Cadets

A new Lyn-Lake pizza joint combines do-gooding, fun, and pizza to charming effect

The Moore the Merrier: Two Appreciations of 'Fahrenheit 9/11'

A Child's ABCs of Terrorism

What Moore Cannes Go Wong?

The personal schmoozes the political at the world's most influential film fest

Kerry Fiddles While He Could Be Burning Bush

Time to go after Bush/Cheney ground zero: National security

The Blogger at War

James Lileks used to be content with writing about his toddler's toilet training. Then Iraq gave him the chance to become the state's most famous conservative.

The Invisible Recovery

Author and economist Doug Henwood on jobless recoveries, the two Americas, and the "Wal-Mart effect"

Bring 'em On!

The Bush administration's top 40 lies about war and terrorism

And The War Came

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