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Kerry: Bush blew it on bin Laden
Tim Grieve
After initial hesitation, the Democratic candidate comes out swinging on the Osama video.
Why the U.S. must withdraw from Iraq
Peter Dale Scott
Vietnam proved that offensive occupations are doomed. In his arrogance, Bush is repeating the same blunder.
Cheese eaters vs. hamburger eaters
Amelia Gentleman
The mayor of Saint-Briac, Kerry's French first cousin, tries to keep a low profile, and hopes for better relations between the U.S. and France under the Democrat's leadership.
Letters
Salon Staff
"This election is giving me shingles!" Readers tell Salon how politics is affecting them.
The unmaking of the president
Sidney Blumenthal
Why the incumbent who should have won in a cakewalk is headed for defeat next week.
Hillary goes Hollywood — in Brooklyn
Rebecca Traister
Tip of the iceberg
David J. Morris
As I learned while embedded in Iraq, the highly lethal explosives stolen from Al Qaqaa are just a fraction of the mountain of poorly secured munitions that could be turned against U.S. soldiers and citizens.
On the offense
Tim Grieve
From the missing munitions to a ballooning war bill, John Kerry seizes on bad news out of Iraq, putting George W. Bush on the defensive.
Seven-days-and-counting Tuesday must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
Bush searches the Tora Bora hills for latest attack
Geraldine Sealey
He’s hot. He’s sexy. And he’s been dead for 2,300 years
Amy Reiter
"Alexander the Great" is being celebrated by Oliver Stone, Leo DiCaprio, DVDs, books, even a video game. An expert explains why everyone's so worked up over the ancient, sexually ambiguous, bloodthirsty conquerer.
How John Kerry exposed the Contra-cocaine scandal
Robert Parry
Derided by the mainstream press and taking on Reagan at the height of his popularity, the freshman senator battled to reveal one of America's ugliest foreign policy secrets.
The Zen of the Fox interview
Eric Boehlert
Ad blitz
Eric Boehlert
Bush and Kerry harness the symbolic power of wolves and eagles, and hugs and tears, in their last-minute TV appeals to voters.
“Bush has been adroit at exploiting” 9/11
Oliver Burkeman
Jimmy Carter attacks the president for helping to fuel anti-American feeling in the Islamic world, among many other failings.
“I reported the rape, then watched my career implode”
Suzanne Goldenberg
In the U.S. military, rapists often go unpunished, several female victims attest.
“Wolf! Wolf!”
Salon Staff
Our readers are not suckered in by the empty cries of the big bad Bush-Cheney wolf TV ad -- and so write their own smart, savvy and much better scripts.
Suppressing the overseas vote
Alix Christie
Record numbers of Americans abroad have registered, but bureaucratic snafus may prevent many from actually voting.
Joschka Fischer’s new world order
Simon Tisdall
With an eye to repairing the damage caused by disagreements over Iraq, Germany's foreign minister offers a rosy view of future U.S.-European relations.
“The Fall of Baghdad” by Jon Lee Anderson
Ann Marlowe
The New Yorker correspondent witnessed the fall of Saddam and the beginning of the uprising. But he fails to explore the destruction Saddam did to the souls of his people.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
This column was guest-written by a freedom-loving Afghan warlord. That's why it sings the praises of Heather Locklear and wanders merrily through three different corpse-riddled urban landscapes!
When reporters become the story
Duncan Campbell
The plight of a cameraman in an Afghan jail and the detention of a writer in Israel highlight the risks of activist journalism.
Freedom is on the retreat
Gary Younge
In the '60s, police dogs and billy clubs kept African-Americans from the polls. Today's methods of blocking voters are more refined.
Scowcroft spanks the younger George
Geraldine Sealey
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