“Obama’s Vietnam:” The quagmire in Afghanistan will be a sinkhole. The time to go all out in Afghanistan was in the immediate aftermath of the 2001 terror attacks. That time has passed. With no personal military background and a reputation as a liberal, President-elect Obama may feel he has to demonstrate his toughness, and that [...]

Peta.Org Reports: When undercover investigators made their way onto Chinese fur farms, they found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from [...]

That Rupert Murdoch may tilt the news rightward more for commercial than ideological reasons is beside the point. What matters is the way that Fox’s model has invaded the bloodstream of the American media. By showing that ideologically distorted news can drive ratings, Ailes has provoked his rivals at CNN and MSNBC to develop a [...]

In Katsina State, North-west Nigeria, debt collectors and street performers live off the sweat of hyenas. The animals are trained to threaten debtors to pay up and when they are not “working,” their handlers use them to entertain motorists and pedestrians — for a fee, of course. “We use a heavy stick to hit the [...]

ThinkProgress: On Monday, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) hosted a job fair in his district at Germanna Community College. Like his last job fair in August, Cantor used it as an opportunity to gain positive local press and launch attacks against President Obama. At the fair, Cantor told reporters that the stimulus has been an “utter [...]