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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?
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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."
Afghan girls — not so liberated after all
Katharine Mieszkowski
It's not just Iraqi women whose rights are in danger.
The tale of “Red Scorpion”
James Verini
The strange Hollywood interlude of the most scandal-ridden man in Washington.
Kissinger’s revisionist history lesson
Aaron Kinney
Former Sec. of State Henry Kissinger says we can learn a lot about Iraq by looking at Vietnam -- as long as we agree that the Vietnam War was an American success story.
Pentagon: Muslims will riot if they see what we did at Abu Ghraib
T.g.
The Bush administration says the release of more photos will lead to violence in Afghanistan and Iraq.
And we’re fighting in Iraq because?
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Newsweek reports that a man the U.S. says is linked to bin Laden is now working for the new Iraqi government.
Sticker shock over shell shock
Mark Benjamin
The U.S. government is reviewing 72,000 cases in which veterans have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, claiming that misdiagnosis and fraud have inflated the numbers. Outraged vets say the plan is a callous attempt to cut the costs of an increasingly expensive war.
Sapphic soldiers
Christine Smallwood
Tereska Torres -- author of 1950s lesbian pulp novel "Women's Barracks" -- talks about the ladies of the Free French Forces, shocking American audiences, and being mistaken for a "lesbian writer."
The White House terror prevention plan: Trust us
Tim Grieve
The military is making plans to respond to terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. What is the White House doing to prevent such attacks? And why won't it tell the former 9/11 commissioners?
Where’s Osama?
T.g.
The president's protestations notwithstanding, a former CIA field commander says the United States could have captured bin Laden at Tora Bora.
What Michael Moore (and the neocons) don’t know about Saudi Arabia
Juan Cole
The left and the right have both crudely demonized the desert kingdom. But the ascension of King Abdullah gives the U.S. a chance to solidify relations with this flawed but key ally.
Letters
Salon Staff
Is Wal-Mart the symptom or the disease? Plus: Debating the connection between the London bombings and Iraq.
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