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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.
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 Sealey
The rich got richer
James K. Galbraith
The Reagan economy was mediocre, and his economists' ideas were a muddle.
Monday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
Tenet’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 Sealey
Bush’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
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