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The Dodd and Biden show
Walter Shapiro
When Tuesday's debate turned to foreign policy, the two veteran senators schooled Clinton and Obama.
Was Bill Clinton “opposed” to the Iraq war “from the beginning”?
Tim Grieve
The answer, as you might expect, is complicated.
Covering up the trail of dead Iraqis
Dahr Jamail
How the Pentagon has used "tactical perception management" to obscure the killing of Iraqi civilians by U.S. forces.
Bad stenographers
Glenn Greenwald
Referring to the role played by our establishment press as stenography is truly an insult to the work of professional stenographers.
A new player in Afghanistan’s Great Game
Andrew Leonard
A Chinese mining company wins the rights to develop what could be the world's biggest copper mine
Biden calls himself “the odd man out” among ’08 Democrats
Walter Shapiro
Sen. Joe Biden blasts his fellow Democratic presidential candidates, saying they need to "connect the dots" when it comes to Iraq, Iran and foreign policy.
Corporate profiteering against Iraq vets?
Mark Benjamin
Bush's nominee to head the Department of Veterans Affairs is the second to come from a private company that rakes in millions from VA contracts.
Doing the Iraq dance, again
Tim Grieve
House approves $50 billion in funding, with strings attached.
No logo for the U.S. in Pakistan
Andrew Leonard
Made in the U.S.A. labels aren't working like they're supposed to near the border of Afghanistan
America’s next top spouse
Rebecca Traister
A guide to the brassy, opinionated, loud, difficult and plum-crazy partners on the arms of their president-running partners. Who says the campaign season is dull?
“Lions for Lambs”
Stephanie Zacharek
Robert Redford rips into the media, the government and our own liberal passivity in this remarkably rousing film.
Waterboarding is not simulated drowning — it is drowning
Malcolm W. Nance
A former instructor at the school designed to teach U.S. soldiers how to resist torture speaks out against the "terrifying, painful" technique.
Bush’s old world disorder
Sidney Blumenthal
Gone are the days when stern words by a U.S. president could prevent rash action by an errant foreign leader like Musharraf.
The circuit board bakers of Guiyu
Andrew Leonard
A documentary filmmaker visits the town in southern China where computers go to die
Bush and Musharraf’s grand illusion
Juan Cole
Democracy for Pakistan was never the deal -- and as Musharraf's latest power grab throws his nation into turmoil, Bush will gladly go along.
Only America-hating traitors believe in due process for journalists
Glenn Greenwald
Rep. Keith Ellison's loyalites are declared suspect because of his belief in core American political principles.
The agonizing truth about CIA renditions
Stephen Grey
The fate of prisoners secreted away under the Bush administration is in some ways worse than even Hollywood has portrayed.
Not taking it to the streets
Tom Engelhardt
As with Vietnam, public opinion turned against the Iraq war when American casualties began to rise. But then the analogy breaks down.
Clinton goes after Obama on Iran
Tim Grieve
Is the front-runner feeling vulnerable or just showing that she can fight, too?
What have you done for me lately?
Salon Staff
GOP representative says the Democratically controlled Congress has done nothing to help the U.S. win in Iraq.
Journalism and its discontents
Sidney Blumenthal
Ninety years after Walter Lippmann first railed against the complicity of the media in wartime propaganda, we're back at ground zero.
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