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Right Hook
Mark Follman
Conservatives are surprisingly kind to Edwards, although Jonah Goldberg calls him Quayle-lite and Taranto blasts his lack of military experience. But others seem prepared to desert Bush in November.
The world according to Dick Cheney
Geraldine Sealey
One in 6 soldiers from Iraq war suffer PTSD
Stephen W. Stromberg
Bush gets checked and balanced
Tim Grieve
The Supreme Court rules against indefinitely locking up detainees -- and deals a mortal blow to the president's vision of his own limitless power.
Tuesday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
The Salon Interview: Bill Clinton
Joe Conason
The former president blasts the Bush-Cheney rush to war, explains why Gore lost in 2000 and tells how Kerry can win in 2004.
Nader vs. the Green Party?
Jeff Horwitz
The leading candidate for the Green Party's presidential nomination talks about Ralph Nader's latest betrayal, and how to run an independent campaign that would not reinstall Bush in the White House.
“Democracy itself is in grave danger”
Salon Staff
Former Vice President Al Gore charges that the Bush administration's use of executive power goes beyond the pale. America's greatest challenge today, he argues, "is not terrorism but how we react to terrorism."
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Sidney Blumenthal
As the administration scrambles to control the political damage from Iraq, a new poll shows that Americans view Kerry as more trustworthy than Bush.
Wednesday must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
Does torture work?
Darius Rejali
The French military's use of torture in Algeria is often cited as a success story. But the real story is more complex. Second of two parts.
Passing gas prices
Amanda Griscom
The House GOP tries to stick the blame for soaring gasoline prices on the Dems.
Another mission accomplished!
Stephen W. Stromberg
Of human bondage
Darius Rejali
The kinds of torture used at Abu Ghraib stem from techniques common to colonial imperialists, Stalin's secret police and the Gestapo.
Torture’s dark allure
Darius Rejali
It gives its practitioners a drug-like rush. But
it leaves a legacy of destruction that takes generations to undo.
Friday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
Saddam and al-Qaida: It’s true because it’s true
Mark Follman
“America’s blankness”
Stephen Holmes
A professor explains why so many people around the world hate us and what a post-Bush foreign policy might look like.
Thursday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
Right Hook
Mark Follman
O'Reilly declares war on Moore and Hollywood Nazis. Plus: Is Bush a lock in November, and is L.A. more dangerous than Baghdad?
Note to Bush and Cheney
Geraldine Sealey
“A temporary coup”
Mark Follman
Author Thomas Powers says the White House's corruption of intelligence has caused the greatest foreign policy catastrophe in modern U.S. history -- and sparked a civil war with the nation's intel agencies.
Letters
Salon Staff
Responses to Ann Marlowe on Raphael Patai's influential book "The Arab Mind" run the gamut from healthy skepticism to outright sarcasm -- "Hello! Ms. Marlowe, it's called a discourse."
Putting Reagan on the scales
Jeff Horwitz, Compiled by Jeff Nachtigal
Martin Anderson, John Judis, Michael Lind and others weigh in on the Hollywood presidency, the end of communism, Iran-Contra and the paradoxes of Reagan's career.
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