Obama's ‘propaganda’ pushed people to ‘hate the police,’ Giuliani says  —  President Obama has engaged in “propaganda” encouraging people to “hate the police,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) charged a day after two New York City police officers were shot and killed in their patrol car …

Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses  —  Since the day President Obama took office, he has failed to bring to justice anyone responsible for the torture of terrorism suspects — an official government program conceived and carried out in the years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Senator Blames His Own Constituents For NYC Cop Killing  —  A Republican senator attributed the assassination-style killing of two NYC police officers to the protests in Ferguson, Missouri following the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown.  —  Appearing on KMBZ in Kansas City on Monday …

South Korean nuclear operator hacked amid cyber-attack fears  —  Operator begins two-day exercise after suspected hacker tweets information on KHNP plants and its staff … South Korea's nuclear plant operator has said its computer systems have been breached, raising fears that hackers …

A Letter from the Editor  —  Shortly before the first issue of The New Republic went on sale a little over a century ago, our founding editor Herbert Croly outlined his vision to a reporter from The New York Times: “The magazine, which is to be a weekly review of current political and social events …

Nixon To China a Bad Move in Rubio's Eyes?  —  Part of what I tuned out over the weekend was Sen. Marco Rubio's domination of the Sunday Shows.  The near-omniscient Brother Benen covered them for us: … I know Rubio is trying very hard to re-establish his credibility with the hard-core …

Tea partier braces for primary challenge from the establishment  —  Mike Lee's position back home is turning the GOP civil war on its head.  —  Tea party favorite Mike Lee roiled the GOP establishment four years ago when he knocked off a sitting senator on his way to the Republican Senate nomination in Utah.

AMERICA'S MILITARY: A conservative institution's uneasy cultural evolution  —  THE FORCE IS CHANGING — OFTEN RELUCTANTLY — ALONGSIDE THE CIVILIAN SOCIETY IT SERVES  —  In this series on:  —  AMERICA'S MILITARY  —  Obama's mark on the military  —  A DEEPLY UNPOPULAR COMMANDER IN CHIEF …

AP-GfK Poll: Cards, gifts cross religious lines  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Christmastime is here and a new poll reveals the cards and gifts that are part of celebrating the holiday are ubiquitous, even among those who don't share the Christian beliefs behind the story of the Magi who gave the first Christmas gifts.

US Corps Claim Billions In Assets In Cuba And Now They'll Want It Back  —  When the Castro regime assumed power in Cuba in 1959, it quickly nationalized the assets of almost every foreign corporation within its borders as the country transitioned to communism.

Putin, Neocons and the Great Illusion  —  More than a century has passed since Norman Angell, a British journalist and politician, published “The Great Illusion,” a treatise arguing that the age of conquest was or at least should be over.  He didn't predict an end to warfare …

How David Gregory Lost His Job  —  Last summer, Gregory was let go from his gig as host of “Meet the Press.”  Here's an inside look at his fall from the top—and what it says about the state of TV news.  —  David Gregory was driving through the mountains of New Hampshire when he got the call …

Man dressed as elf charged with DWI  —  RIVERDALE - A man dressed as one of Santa's little helpers found himself in trouble Friday morning when Riverdale police allegedly discovered him drunkenly passed out in a car.  —  Around 3:30 a.m., Sgt. Pat Harden was dispatched to the parking lot …

How Obama Took Sony's Crisis From Bad to Worse  —  If there are such a thing as textbooks in the field of crisis management, the Sony Pictures hack might end up in the chapter labeled “Worst Case Scenario.”  —  But as much as Sony seemed to mishandle its sorry situation in recent days …