Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 288)
The whole world is watching
Michelle Goldberg
If militants violently disrupt the GOP convention, it could be Chicago 1968 redux -- and Christmas in August for the Bush campaign.
Subcontracting the hunt for bin Laden
Husain Haqqani
The twisted relationship between the Bush administration and Pakistan's military regime, driven by a mutual desire for survival, is undermining the war on terror.
“Checkpoint” by Nicholson Baker
Charles Taylor
This hot-button novel isn't bad because it's about a plot to kill Bush. It's bad because it can't face the real, understandable rage that can drive rational people to think the unthinkable.
Monday’s Must Reads
Tim Grieve
Red alert
Dale Davis
The Bush administration has a dangerous pattern of exposing intelligence operations for political gain, and that's undermining its war on terrorism.
War? What war?
Eric Boehlert
Until the recent flare-up in Najaf, Iraq had faded from the front pages -- despite continued carnage and chaos. Team Bush couldn't be happier.
Contract to torture
Osha Gray Davidson
A rare look at the entire Abu Ghraib report reveals that inexperienced, under-supervised private-sector employees actively took part in horrifying prisoner abuse.
Protection — or paranoia?
Justin Rood
Why is the Secret Service treating harmless professors and pacifist homeless advocates like they're members of al-Qaida?
War is hot! Diplomacy, so uncool
Jonathan Steele
In both Sudan and Sri Lanka, the route to peace is through negotiation.
Sudan throws anti-UN rally
Jeevan Vasagar
Tens of thousands show up at a government-sponsored protest against increased troop presence.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Mark Steyn says a "deluded" John Kerry is "frozen in the '60s," while Trent Lott tags the Boston native "a French-speaking socialist." Plus: Defending dubious terror alerts. And: Drudge rips off Tom Tomorrow.
First lady fights back!
Tony Kushner
In this exclusive new scene by Tony Kushner he is confronted by Laura Bush, who claims Dostoevsky for conservatives, defends her husband's poetry and extols his "vividness."
Bruce: “Its just too big a battle to lay out of”
Geraldine Sealey
Tales of torture
Vikram Dodd, Tania Branigan
Questioned at gunpoint, shackled, forced to pose naked. British detainees tell their stories of Guantanamo Bay.
Wired awake
Ian Sample
Soldiers in the field go for days without rest. Now, an investigation has found the British Ministry of Defense has been buying a new stimulant in bulk.
Byrd vs. Bush
Mary Jacoby
Sen. Robert Byrd blasts fellow senators for believing "the garbage that was being spewed out by the administration" on Iraq, and thanks the airline passengers who "died to save this Capitol, my life and my staff."
How John Kerry should handle Iraq
Compiled by Salon staff
Thoughts on President Bush's foreign policy debacle -- and what the Democratic presidential nominee should say and do about it -- from John Judis, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Michael Lind and more.
Bush’s bungled Saudi deal-making
Charles Tiefer
President Bush and his lawyer, the former U.S. ambassador in Riyadh, wasted a golden opportunity to pressure the Saudis to crack down on terrorism.
Friday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
“The Asset” and the Iran-al Qaida connection
Stephen W. Stromberg
The man who invented the future
Scott Thill
Alan Moore, who reinvented the comic book as the cutting-edge literary medium of our day, talks about beheading, the diabolical power of the media, the Bush dynasty and the fall of Tony Blair.
The final word from the 9/11 commission
Geraldine Sealey
Army finds 94 cases of prisoner abuse
Geraldine Sealey
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