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Chris Hondros in Sierra Leone, 2001

Chris Hondros, RIP: How my best friend died in a combat zone

Greg Campbell
A week before he was killed, Chris and I were in Libya together. He had asked me to join him. Of course I went
Holding posters of their leader, supporters of Moammar Gadhafi chant slogans following a NATO airstrike in Tripoli, Libya, early Saturday, April 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic) (AP)

Airstrikes hit near Gadhafi’s residential compound

Karin Laub
NATO airstrike slams secret bunker in Tripoli
President Barack Obama meets with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (Associated Press)

Is the world too big to fail?

Noam Chomsky
As its global dominance wanes, America battles democracy, both at home and abroad
A stranded foreign refugee reacts after being informed that his name is not on the passengers list as a ship evacuating wounded Libyans and refugees fleeing conflict zone is scheduled to leave the port of Misrata, Libya Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Inside the besieged city of Misrata, spent rockets protrude from the pavement of a parking lot, unarmed teenagers prepare plastic crates of Molotov cocktails, and fighters at roadblocks sit inside empty shipping containers outfitted with furniture, carpets and generator-powered TVs and watch Al-Jazeera reports of their war with Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) (AP)

Libyan rebels claim taking post on Tunisian border

Ben Hubbard, Karin Laub
Opposition leaders say it could open a channel for anti-Gadhafi fighters to come into Libya

Oscar-nominated photojournalist killed in Libya

Associated Press
Tim Hetherington, director of acclaimed documentary "Restrepo," killed during heavy fighting in Misrata
FILE - In this July 15, 2009 file photo released by Department of Defense, “Three Cups of Tea” co-author Greg Mortenson shows the locations of future village schools to U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the opening of Pushghar Village Girls School 60 miles north of Kabul in Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan. Montana’s attorney general on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 told The Associated Press that he has launched an inquiry into the charity run by Mortenson, following investigations by “60 Minutes” and author Jon Krakauer into inaccuracies in the book. (AP Photo/Department of Defense, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley) (AP)

Montana investigates “Three Cups of Tea” charity

Matt Volz
Montana attorney general opens inquiry into possible malfeasance at Greg Mortenson's Central Asia Institute
FILE - On this April 6, 2011, file photo, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks at an Americans for Prosperity "Cut Spending Now," rally on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Barack Obama has launched his re-election bid in a low-key manner, but the Republican Party’s search for a challenger seems stranger by the day. In Iowa at least, there’s also widespread talk about Bachmann, who would be the first president elected directly from the House since James Garfield. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) (AP)

Sleepwalking into the imperial dark

Tom Engelhardt
America today: What it feels like when a superpower runs off the tracks
Greg Mortenson

Why “Three Cups of Tea’s” lies don’t really matter

Laura Miller
Greg Mortenson is being attacked for his book's inaccuracies. His accusers are missing the point
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2011 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts

The Associated Press
The New York Times and Los Angeles Times each snag two prizes; Jennifer Egan wins for fiction
Afghan police men and officials stand close to a damaged police vehicle at the scene of a suicide car bomb explosion on the out skirts of Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, April 14, 2011. A suicide car bomber detonated a truck of explosives covered in wood at a government compound in Musayi district, about 40 miles south of the Afghan capital, according Daud Amin, deputy police chief in Kabul. Six members of the Afghan national security forces were injured, he said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Suicide bomber kills nine soldiers at Afghan base

Rahim Faiez
5 NATO troops, 4 Afghan soldiers dead after attack
Former President Jimmy Carter and President Barack Obama

How a president loses his party’s base

Steve Kornacki
Is Obama in Jimmy Carter territory yet?
A still from "Armadillo"

Pick of the week: The greatest war film ever made?

Andrew O'Hehir
Spectacular and troubling, "Armadillo" follows a group of Danish soldiers into a gruesome Afghan firefight
President Barack Obama shakes hands with military officers after he spoke about Libya at the National Defense University in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Charles Dharapak)

The secret militarism of Obama’s defense spending cuts

David Sirota
The Pentagon would take on an even greater share of spending. Is this what Americans really want?
United States' Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reacts during the informal meeting of the NATO foreign ministers in the Foreign Ministry in Berlin Thursday, April 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) (AP)

Clinton: NATO nations agree that Gadhafi must go

Matthew Lee, Geir Moulson
NATO allies have agreed they must oust the Libyan leader, but plans vary on how it should be done

How I almost lost my marriage in a war zone

Selma Kalousek
As a Times correspondent, Ian thrived on danger, but the job he loved was tearing our family apart
President Obama returns to the Blue Room at the White House in Washington after he spoke regarding the budget and averted government shutdown, Friday, April 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

How America conducts foreign policy

Andrew J. Bacevich
Obama's administration, like those of his predecessors, blindly embraces military "solutions"
Shilo Thompson and Brandon Walker, both aircraft mechanics with the 361st Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, load an AFM-114 Hellfire missile onto an MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle at Ali Air Base, Iraq, on July 9, 2008. The Predator provides integrated and synchronized close air combat operations for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance purposes. DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Sabrina Johnson, U.S. Air Force. (Released) (407th Air Expeditionary Group Pu)

How the U.S. kills civilians in Afghanistan

Justin Elliott
Report shows how drones can be involved in the killing of civilians -- and how little is known about such incidents
FILE - In this April 1, 2011, file photo House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington to discuss GOP efforts to create jobs and cut spending. The dilemma facing Boehner to pass a fast-approaching spending compromise and avert a government shutdown is to get the overwhelming majority of votes to come from fellow Republicans, even if dozens of easily attainable Democratic votes could help carry the budget bill to victory. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) (AP)

Government shutdown now less than 40 hours away

Andrew Taylor
A Wednesday night summit fails to produce an agreement. Now the GOP floats a one-week extension
A Blackhawk helicopter with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and U.S. Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, commanding general of U.S. Forces in Iraq, on board taxis on the tarmac after Gates' arrival Wednesday, April 6, 2011 in Baghad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Chip Somodevilla, Pool) (AP)

Gates says Iraq can keep some US troops

Robert Burns
Defense Secretary Gates told Iraqis they must decide whether they want a continued US military presence or not
President Barack Obama answers a question on the ongoing situation in Libya during his joint news conference with President of El Salvador Mauricio Funes at the National Palace in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, March 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

The real reason we rushed into (another) war

Ned Resnikoff
The influence of the rich extends far beyond economic and fiscal policy
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy

Bad influences: JFK, Ike and Obama

Michael Lind
The war in Libya is a reminder of how the current president embodies the worst traits of two of his predecessors
An Afghan protestor beats a burning effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a rally in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on Sunday, April 3, 2011. Afghan protests against the burning of a Quran in Florida entered a third day with a demonstration in the major eastern city Sunday, while the Taliban called on people to rise up, blaming government forces for any violence. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) (AP)

Did a Quran burning really cause Afghan violence?

Peter Finocchiaro
Many blame a Florida pastor's desecration for dozens of deaths in Afghanistan. Is it more complicated than that?
In this photo released by CBS, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., talks about the possibility of a government shutdown over a budget impasse and U.S. military action in Libya on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington Sunday, April 3, 2011. (AP Photo/CBS, Chris Usher) NO ARCHIVES. NO SALES. (AP)

The most uncounted cost of Endless War

Glenn Greenwald
Two senators suggest formal action to punish Pastor Jones' speech -- and show the uncounted cost of endless war
Afghan protestors beat a burning effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a demonstration in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on Sunday, April 3, 2011. Afghan protests against the burning of a Quran in Florida entered a third day with a demonstration in the major eastern city Sunday, while the Taliban called on people to rise up, blaming government forces for any violence. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) (AP)

Quran protests spread to turbulent Afghan east

Rahim Faiez, Rahmat Gul
Third day of protests ignited by Florida Quran burning rages on, spreads outward
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