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Baghdad: The besieged press
Orville Schell
Holed up in fortified compounds, at constant risk of death when they venture out, reporters in Iraq are increasingly cut off from the hideous reality outside.
Desperate Army wives
Sarah Elizabeth Richards
As military men serve repeated tours in Iraq, military wives back home are getting burned out.
Introduction: The Abu Ghraib files
Salon Staff
279 photographs and 19 videos from the Army's internal investigation record a harrowing three months of detainee abuse inside the notorious prison -- and make clear that many of those responsible have yet to be held accountable.
Prosecutions and convictions
Salon Staff
A look at accountability to date for abuses at Abu Ghraib and in the broader "war on terror."
Investigations and other resources
Tracy Clark-Flory, Compiled by Mark Follman
A look at investigations into Abu Ghraib; plus, other reports, legal documents and further reading about prisoner abuse and torture.
Shark and awe
Tom Engelhardt
The Pentagon plans to put neural implants in sharks to have them serve as underwater spies -- another example of a defense budget gone mad.
Singles going steady
Sarah Elizabeth Richards
To avoid marrying a jerk, singles educators say you should stay out of bed on the first date and cross-examine your partner. Critics say their advice is hokum.
A deluded king and his court lickspittles
Sidney Blumenthal
Cut off from reality and surrounded by flatterers like Rice and Cheney, Bush clings to grandiose illusions of heroism.
For Bush, a panic play — in Afghanistan
Tim Grieve
In search of higher ground, the president makes a surprise stop on the way to India.
When facts fail
Tom Engelhardt
Journalist Mark Danner says that the Bush administration's wrongdoing, from greenlighting torture to lies about Iraq to illegal spying, has been exposed again and again. But when there are never any consequences, the scandals simply cease to exist.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
David Mamet brings us tough-as-nails soldiers fighting terrorism (and their even tougher wives) in CBS's "The Unit," while FX presents an insufferably "colorblind" white couple in "Black. White."
Business as usual
Joe Conason
Bush's strong support of the Dubai ports deal isn't so surprising in light of his family's many financial ties to Arab sheikdoms.
Bush threatens veto — his first — over port deal
Tim Grieve
Facing bipartisan opposition in Congress, the president says he'll go to the mat to turn over control of U.S. ports to a Dubai company.
The dictator defense
David Cole
Bush's attorney general won't dare explain the real basis for warrantless spying on Americans: Pure, unbridled executive power.
All cartoon politics are local
Juan Cole
Muslim outrage reflects specific national conflicts -- most of them exacerbated by Bush's policies.
Words by Gonzales, logic by Kafka
Sidney Blumenthal
Alberto Gonzales' bizarre defense of Bush's illegal domestic spying revealed him to have unsuspected imaginative gifts.
The Bush budget: Iraq and Afghanistan on $50 billion a year
Tim Grieve
After budgeting nothing for the wars for 2006, the White House has penciled in $50 billion for 2007.
What Alberto Gonzales wouldn’t say
Tim Grieve
If the attorney general believes there are limits on the president's power as commander in chief, it's not at all clear what those are.
Surveilling Gonzales
Walter Shapiro
The attorney general defended warrantless spying with yet more doublespeak, but the Senate is homing in on Bush's dangerous abuse of power.
As Bush seeks more cash for Iraq, a memo sheds light on how he got there
Tim Grieve
Is this "Downing Street Memo, Part 2"?
“A failed and oppressive state 7,000 miles away”
Tim Grieve
Iraq? Saudi Arabia? Afghanistan? Why just say it when you can keep on clouding the picture?
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