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Python swallows Bush!
Laura Miller
Monty Python's Terry Jones talks about becoming a political writer, the decline of the British press and how Bush and Blair have erased the line between absurdity and horror.
Ask not
Tim Grieve
Our three friends
Ewen MacAskill
Of 21 nations polled by the BBC, only people in the Philippines, Poland and India view Bush's reelection positively. And the world's dislike of the president is turning into a dislike of Americans generally.
When words fail us
Geraldine Sealey
The scandal sheet
Peter Dizikes
Print it out, send it to Harry Reid, or just read it and weep. Here are 34 scandals from the first four years of George W. Bush's presidency -- every one of them worse than Whitewater.
Looking pretty grim
Geraldine Sealey
About that pesky little CIA report…
Mark Follman
Clinging to happy talk
Sidney Blumenthal
Bush says elections will bring democracy to Iraq, but that is as unrealistic as all his other now-disproved rosy scenarios.
Iraq, the new Afghanistan
Mark Follman
Misleading by example
Julian Borger, Richard Norton-Taylor, Suzanne Goldenberg
A watchdog group's report decries U.S. prisoner abuse, saying "the pictures from Abu Ghraib have become the recruiting posters for Terrorism, Inc."
In America’s secret prison network
James Meek
A German car salesman says that a year ago he was kidnapped in Europe, beaten and flown to a U.S. jail in Afghanistan. Now his government is collecting evidence to back up his story.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Randy Johnson says hello and "%#$& you!" to the New York media. This is going to be fun. Plus: The readers write about Randy Moss.
Are we doomed?
Oliver Broudy
Jared Diamond, author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "Collapse," says that if America doesn't change its ways it'll go the way of the dodo -- no matter what Bill Gates, George Bush or Michael Crichton says.
The yes man
Joe Conason
Ever faithful to his boss, George W. Bush, Alberto Gonzales dodged his Senate critics Thursday with the company man's eternal defense: See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Tours of duty
Geraldine Sealey
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Fox News' Sean Hannity rips U.N. official over tsunami relief comment, wants him fired. Too bad his facts are wrong. And: Why is a right-winger singing from the same choir as Michael Moore?
Clothes make the mullah
Niloofar Haeri
In Iran, home to some of the best-dressed clergy in the Islamic world, looking good is part of the job.
A “broken” force
Geraldine Sealey
Bush stops spam; blue states rejoice
Farhad Manjoo, Katharine Mieszkowski
Also: Google closes its digital library doors, and Dennis Kucinich's blog rocks your world. Salon's technology and business predictions for 2005.
Indefinite and secretive
Julian Borger
Under scrutiny for its harsh interrogation methods at Guantanamo, the U.S. plans to move some terror suspects to "permanent" prisons in other countries.
If you like Iraq, you’ll love Iran
Jeff Horwitz
Kenneth Pollack says the Bush administration doesn't have a clue about what to do in Iran and doesn't have much time to get it right.
No aberration
Suzanne Goldenberg
Memos from FBI agents complaining about treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo provide the clearest account yet of abuse sanctioned by the Bush administration.
Goin’ south
Russ Feingold
A driving trip through Alabama reminds a U.S. senator from Wisconsin how radical conservatives are robbing hardworking people of the American dream.
The year in sports
King Kaufman
Miracle comebacks, working-class heroes and gracious champions. Flying chairs, rape charges and steroids. 2004 was all about taking the bad with the good.
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