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Banta's nightmare | If you thought the sub-prime mess was bad... COMMENTARY Credit default swaps, a relatively new form of protection for lenders, constitute an international market so huge -- $62 trillion -- that a credit default in it could cause financial institutions to stop lending, paralyzing the economic system. 
Bush legacy | A Pentagon metastasized almost beyond recognition COMMENTARY The next president will inherit a Pentagon with a vastly bigger budget, enormously more influence and a mission so radically expanded that keeping it in check may be close to impossible.
Moyers, Rather among speakers | Media critics with a goal in mind COMMENTARY The Free Press media reform group, holding its annual convention in Minneapolis this weekend, has corporate control of news organizations as a main target.
U.S. in isolation | Everyone's talking in the Middle East -- but us COMMENTARY A former CIA station chief writes that in Lebanon and elsewhere, consequential conversations are taking place that are critical to our national interests. But because we refuse to talk to such major players as Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria, we're not involved.
Appointed judges | Unaccountable for life COMMENTARY Is appointing judges a better alternative than letting the public elect them? George Lardner, Jr., takes issue with a New York Times article that seems to argue that the failure of the media to cover judicial issues is reason enough to scuttle elections in favor of out-of-sight, out-of-mind appointments.
A continuing saga | Behind the Postville slaughterhouse raid COMMENTARY Journalism professor Stephen Bloom says one of the worst kept secrets in Iowa was that Agriprocessors, the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the world, had undocumented workers.
Why so little scrutiny? | When Justices play the stock market COMMENTARY Why don't Supreme Court justices explain their recusals – and not leave it up to reporters to guess?
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