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Harriet Miers on Bush, Ashcroft, 9/11 and Barney
Tim Grieve
She may not have much of a legal paper trail, but Miers has had lots to say in "Ask the White House."
Atoning for Abu Ghraib
Marian Blasberg, Anita Blasberg
The lives of two men -- an Iraqi prisoner and an American guard involved in his torture -- were destroyed in the prison. Nine U.S. soldiers have been sentenced in the scandal, but both men say that's not nearly enough.
The Pentagon’s picture problems
Tim Grieve
The Army calls off its investigation of the pictures-for-porn swap just as a federal judge says the government must release more photos from Abu Ghraib.
Letters
Salon Staff
The head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime responds to Mitchell Prothero's piece on Afghanistan.
Protecting America’s wounded
Mark Benjamin
Democratic senators have stepped up to defend benefits for soldiers traumatized by combat.
Where the road ends in Afghanistan
Mitchell Prothero
A harrowing visit to Chavosh, a village so remote its people have never seen a Westerner, and so poor a farmer is forced to marry his 11-year-old daughter to a 55-year-old man.
Afghanistan: Mission not yet accomplished
Mitchell Prothero
Despite successful elections, warlords, drug cartels and growing disenchantment with the West could still derail the fledgling democracy.
Carondelet Street or bust
Billy Sothern
Driving all night back into occupied New Orleans, a man finds exhausted cops, a stray dog named Sancho Panza, and rotten chicken in his Katrina-damaged house. But nothing will keep him away from the city where the beer never stops flowing.
Clinton on Bush
T.g.
After making nice in the immediate aftermath of Katrina, the former president has a few words of advice for his successor.
What went wrong
Gary Kamiya
In Anthony Shadid's extraordinary new book about the Iraq war, the Iraqis themselves finally speak. Their stories provide the most eloquent indictment yet of America's disastrous Middle East adventure.
The all-purpose solution: Formula 9/11
T.g.
Hurricane Katrina? The Supreme Court? There's only one subject the White House would like to discuss.
Let’s Iraq and roll
Mark Benjamin
In a surreal twist on the political demonstration, the Pentagon put on a show to mark 9/11 and honor U.S. troops serving in the war.
Those who are staying
Michael Scherer
They have nowhere to go, or want to save their belongings, or are scared. A day in New Orleans with the holdouts.
Christopher Hitchens’ last battle
Juan Cole
The British hawk gives 10 reasons why Americans should be proud of the Iraq war. He goes 0 for 10.
Gimme shelter
Stephen Elliott
Trying to force authorities to open an Air Force base as a shelter, Jesse Jackson and other black leaders picked up 150 evacuees at the squalid New Orleans Airport and headed into the night.
Stories from Hurricane Katrina
Salon Staff
On Saturday, a cry for help from Franklinton, La.: "We are panicking!" More reader tales of heroism and despair.
Is it time to raise taxes?
Aaron Kinney
Hurricane Katrina will send the federal budget deeper into the red. Is it finally time for a sane fiscal policy?
Off their guard
Mark Benjamin
The Gulf Coast disaster is further taxing the National Guard, already stretched to a breaking point in Iraq.
Camp Casey goes to Washington
Rob Patterson
As America's most famous antiwar activist takes her crusade on the road, supporters pack up their banners and rosary beads and promise Crawford will always remember "Sheehan's stand."
Where have all the soldiers gone?
T.g.
Is Iraq hurting rescue and relief efforts back home? It depends on whom you ask.
Speaking for the dead on Iraq
T.g.
Both supporters and opponents of the war are invoking memories of the fallen to support their positions.
Advertising for war at Arlington National Cemetery?
T.g.
In a change from past practice, the gravestones for fallen soldiers now include the P.R.-friendly names of the camp
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers weigh in on President Bush's vacation and Dolly Parton's politics. Plus: A librarian from Ketchikan, Alaska, responds to Garrison Keillor's "Book 'Em."
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