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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 SealeyRight 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.
Branded
Daniel Glick
When Staff Sgt. Georg Pogany asked for help after a combat-stress reaction in Iraq, his superiors charged him with cowardice and sent him home. He's fighting to restore his reputation -- and save other soldiers from his ordeal.
Wednesday’s must-reads
Geraldine SealeyThe rich got richer
James K. Galbraith
The Reagan economy was mediocre, and his economists' ideas were a muddle.
Monday’s must-reads
Geraldine SealeyTenet’s choice
Mary Jacoby
Was the CIA director pushed out by a White House looking for a scapegoat on Iraq and 9/11? Or did he flee before Bush could make him the fall guy?
The politics of terrorism
E.J. Dionne Jr.
How the GOP used 9/11 to scare Americans into war: An excerpt from "Stand Up, Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge."
Friday’s must-reads
Geraldine SealeyBush’s grand European tour
Sidney Blumenthal
Courting the allies he spurned last year, the president will mangle the lessons of history to turn Iraq into postwar Europe, but no one will be fooled.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Al Gore gives a fiery speech and conservatives brand him "insane" -- again. Plus: Coulter defends Rush ... against O'Reilly!
The ugly American
Charles A. Kupchan
When Bush arrives in Rome for the start of a series of meetings with European leaders, it won't exactly be la dolce vita.
Rohrabacher’s short memory
Geraldine Sealey“The most dishonest president since Nixon”
Salon Staff
Former Vice President Al Gore blasts George W. Bush for dangerously inept leadership and a foreign policy that has "brought deep dishonor" to the country.
Washington’s Chalabi nightmare
Sidney Blumenthal
One more headache for the besieged Bush administration: The FBI is now interrogating the neocon cronies of Ahmed Chalabi.
“Security and strength for a new world”
Salon Staff
Sen. John Kerry's rallying cry includes bolstering the U.S. military, kicking the country's "dangerous" oil habit -- and restoring America's image as a nation "respected, and not just feared."
Gameboys
Tom Bissell, Jeff Alexander
"Hitman: Contracts" lets you kick major bad-guy butt -- but dealing with all the blood-oozing dead bodies isn't so easy.
“We cannot afford their blunders”
Geraldine Sealey
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