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Crime Inc.
Andrew Leonard
Multinational corporations benefit from globalization. So do counterfeiters, drug dealers, human traffickers and gun runners.
Wrong about rights
Michael Ratner
Is the U.S. above the Geneva Conventions? The debate over McCain's anti-torture bill is a sad moment for a country that once stood for human rights.
Best of Salon: 2001
Salon Staff
Our fearless coverage of 9/11 ranged from Ground Zero to Afghanistan. We explained "Mulholland Drive," exposed Silicon Valley and asked if Bush was a chimp.
Uproar over secret prisons
Nicholas Watt
European and U.S. human rights groups seek answers on alleged CIA camps for terror suspects in Poland and Romania.
Afghan women’s rights meet bad-hair day
Katharine Mieszkowski
On Yahoo U.K.'s list of Web sites for "ladies," even women in Afghanistan aren't safe.
Reporting for duty
Bill Frogameni
Iraq war vet Paul Hackett is aiming for a Senate seat -- and a progressive revival of the Democratic Party.
I, Ramush
Ginanne Brownell
Former Kosovar rebel and prime minister Ramush Haradinaj is a local hero. He also faces war crime charges.
The White House stumbles into the weekend
Aaron Kinney
Karl Rove's grand jury appearance and more news on Bush's fake powwow with U.S. soldiers top off a bad week for the administration.
Why the U.S. must leave Iraq
Michael Scherer
Sen. Russ Feingold says it's time to admit the war was a disaster -- and accuses his fellow Democrats of going along with Bush out of fear.
Bush: Sometimes leaders “hear voices”
Tim Grieve
Are they sweet nothings from Karen Hughes or words from a higher power?
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.
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