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A disastrous appointment
Michelle Goldberg
Bush's backdoor choice of unqualified right-winger Ellen Sauerbrey to head the U.S. refugee-response team raises the specter of Michael Brown.
Losing their minds
Mark Benjamin
More U.S. soldiers than ever are sustaining serious brain injuries in Iraq. But a significant number of them are being misdiagnosed, forced to wait for treatment or even being called liars by the Army.
Lawsuit against Bush?
Michael Scherer
The attorney for the only known target of NSA eavesdropping says his client would be happy to sue the president.
“Never have the freedoms we cherish seemed so imperiled”
Salon Staff
In an impassioned speech, Sen. Byrd voices his shock and dismay over the Bush administration's practice of spying on U.S. citizens.
Gonzales: Bush had “inherent” authority to violate spying law
Tim Grieve
The legal defense begins, and it is breathtaking.
Afghan teacher murdered for teaching girls
Katharine Mieszkowski
The Taliban lives, and a teacher dies.
Blood and betrayal
Gary Kamiya
After four years of the badly botched "war on terror," are we ready to hear the hard words of Robert Fisk -- a gutsy war correspondent who says the West has wronged the Middle East?
Incalculable pain
Mark Benjamin
The Pentagon is underreporting the number of American soldier casualties in Iraq, say House Democrats.
Honor killings in the liberated Iraq
Farhad Manjoo
In Iraq, the practice of killing rape victims to preserve a family's honor persists. And Americans aren't doing much to stop it.
Should we stay or should we go?
Farhad Manjoo
Surprisingly, a bipartisan consensus is emerging for bringing home our exhausted troops, yet President Bush clings to his chimera of total victory. Inside the escalating debate over Iraq.
The party lines
Compiled by J.J. Helland, Juliana Bunim
21 leading Democrats who voted for the Iraq war resolution -- and what they're saying now.
Red, white and blue — and inky
Salon Staff
The measure of patriotism, the price of war, and pleasure of the twilight, this week in TT.
Condi’s trail of lies
Sidney Blumenthal
Condoleezza Rice's contradictory, misleading and outright false statements about the U.S. and torture have taken America's moral standing -- and her own -- to new depths.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
The most important political documentary of the decade suggests that the "war on terrorism" is a dark delusion -- and there's no such thing as al-Qaida.
Pearl Harbor
Tim Grieve
Four years into this war, Americans are still fighting -- over here and over there.
A CIA victim strikes back
Tim Grieve
A man taken into custody and then sent to Afghanistan on a "hunch" goes to court for vindication.
“God help us if we have another attack”
Tim Grieve
As Condoleezza Rice lectures Europeans about the war on terror, the 9/11 Commission raises some questions back home.
Secrets and lies
Tim Grieve
What happens when the United States seizes the wrong man and then holds him in secret.
America can’t take it anymore
Mark Follman
The Bush administration has embraced torture as a key part of the "war on terror." Finally, members of Congress, the military and the CIA are speaking out against the abuse.
The Woodward coverup
Sidney Blumenthal
What a shock it was to learn that the man who exposed the Watergate scandal had been keeping his own big secret.
Did Bush plan to bomb Al-Jazeera?
Juan Cole
The American press is predictably ignoring the story. Yet it is only too plausible that Bush wanted to wipe out what he saw as a nest of terrorists.
A history of violence
James Norton
Robert Dreyfuss explains how America's meddling in the Middle East unleashed the current deadly wave of Islamic fundamentalism.
Brutality toward women in war-torn Darfur
Sarah Karnasiewicz
The world watches silently as sexual brutality is used as a weapon of war in Sudan.
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