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• Nepotistic succession in the political class

  A large, and rapidly growing, percentage of high elected officials are part of politically powerful families. What accounts for this anti-democratic dynamic?

  Glenn Greenwald

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• Why do Feinstein and Wyden sound much different on the torture issue now?

  The two Senators spent the year emphatically insisting that the CIA's interrogators comply with the Army Field Manual. With Democrats in control, they're not so emphatic any longer

  Glenn Greenwald

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• The buck stops where?

  Our delusional president laments the "intelligence failure" that identified nonexistent WMD in Iraq and admits he was "unprepared" for war.

  Joan Walsh

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• Sympathy for Charles Graner

  No one from the Bush administration has been held accountable for torture. But the guard from Abu Ghraib prison is still behind bars, and his family wants to know why.

  By Mark Benjamin

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• Team America

  Barack Obama's national security team is impressive in its diversity and in its excellence. Plus: I debate Christopher Hitchens over Hillary Clinton.

  Joan Walsh

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