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The Salon Interview: Ian McEwan
Laura Miller
The author of "Saturday" discusses writing after 9/11, the burden of being interesting, and why he's still ambivalent about the Iraq war.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers sound off on rising gas prices, the reconstruction of Afghanistan, and the politics of trophy hunting.
Good news for the troops?
Mark Follman
The Pentagon is playing up an optimistic forecast for troop reductions and shorter tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the numbers tell a less rosy story.
The growing American gulag
Mark Follman
A new report says the number of prisoners in U.S. custody in Iraq has doubled since October -- many of them held in nothing more than "trailers surrounded by barbed wire."
Afghaniscam
Susanne Koebl
The international community's need for a fast success story -- and lots of available money -- has led to an invasion of gold-digging consultants and aid workers.
Tough on terror, weak on guns
Mark Benjamin
Politicians in Washington are poised to give unprecedented freedom to the gun industry -- and they're so beholden to the NRA they're allowing potential terrorists to buy weapons over the counter.
Fear rules in Nepal
Simon Tisdall
Analysts worry that the continuing turmoil in the Himalayan kingdom could have spillover effects throughout the region.
Playing ball with the CIA
Mark Follman
Buy yourself a Gulfstream IV jet and maybe you, too, could be a team player in the Bush administration's war on terror.
Reconstructing justice
Duncan Campbell
A group of Western lawyers eager for adventure is introducing legal aid to Afghanistan, where a trial for murder can take less than an hour.
The Democrats’ Middle East dilemma
Page Rockwell
Savaged by right-wingers for a "Daily Show" appearance in which she seemed to root for U.S. failure, former Clinton advisor Nancy Soderberg talks about what Bush does and doesn't deserve credit for.
A woman’s battle for the soul of Islam
Sarah Karnasiewicz
Horrified by the murder of her friend Daniel Pearl, journalist Asra Nomani made the hajj to Mecca. Now she's fighting to reclaim her faith from the men of darkness.
Has the war on terror hurt the war on drugs?
Jason Burke
New reports reveal that global demand for illegal substances is higher than ever despite actions to curb supply.
P.R. fiasco on Guantanamo
Suzanne Goldenberg
A judge rules prisoners cannot be transferred to Yemen as the Pentagon confirms allegations that four female interrogators sexually humiliated detainees at the base.
Bush, race and Social Security
Tim Grieve
The president suggests that privatization opponents think a "certain race" lacks the capacity to invest.
Don’t like Guantanamo? How about Saudi Arabia?
Tim Grieve
The Pentagon plans rendition on a massive scale.
The invisible wounded
Mark Benjamin
Injured soldiers evacuated to the U.S. never arrive in the light of day -- and the Pentagon has yet to offer a satisfactory explanation why.
What the tsunami dragged in
Jeff Greenwald
Still sorting through the debris in Sri Lanka, officials are uncovering the explosive legacy of a wartorn area: Land mines.
Failing the troops
Tim Grieve
Despite all the bumper sticker politics about "supporting the troops," a new report shows that the Bush administration's bumbling left U.S. soldiers in Iraq without the body armor they needed.
Where’s Osama?
Tim Grieve
Bush says the United States is on the hunt, but did the Pentagon shift troops to Iraq for the elections instead?
The challenges of nation building
Simon Tisdall
The U.N. warns that though its civil war is over, Afghanistan could easily slip back into chaos.
Letters
Salon Staff
Veterans respond to Mark Benjamin's article on Walter Reed and share their own frustrations with the Army's medical bureaucracy.
A U.S. fleet for outsourcing torture?
Mark Follman
More evidence of aircraft used in the Bush administration's secretive program for rendering terrorist suspects to foreign countries.
New claims of detainee torture
Suzanne Goldenberg, James Meek
Documents obtained by the ACLU indicate that the U.S. used interrogation methods in Afghanistan as harsh as those employed at Abu Ghraib.
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