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Wednesday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
Marching off the cliff
Michal Keeley, Compiled by Mark Follman, Jeff Horwitz
Free-falling in the polls, Bush stayed with the same tough-guy message. But Michael Lind, Karen Kwiatkowski, Ruy Teixeira and others say he landed with a splat, while AEI's Michael Rubin says the speech was "a good start."
Double-standards in South Dakota
Geraldine Sealey
Al-Qaida, alive and well
Geraldine Sealey
Bush’s cynical ploy
Geraldine Sealey
Monday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
From John Ashcroft’s Justice Department to Abu Ghraib
Joe Conason
The men behind the administration's decision to ignore and undermine the Geneva Conventions in Iraq.
A call to conscience
Roger Morris
The diplomat who quit over Nixon's invasion of Cambodia asks Americans on the front lines of foreign service to resign from the "worst regime by far in the history of the republic."
“Colossus” by Niall Ferguson
Ted Widmer
A brilliant British scholar argues that America should embrace its destiny as a global power and create a new, more enlightened kind of empire.
Smiting the infidels
Sidney Blumenthal
Gen. Boykin, the Bible-thumping crank who said Bush "was appointed by God," is at the center of the Abu Ghraib scandal.
Cuban dissidents held at Gitmo?
Geraldine Sealey
The prisoner-abuse scandal at home
Michelle Goldberg
The stories sound familiar: Muslim prisoners beaten and sexually humiliated by American guards. But it happened in Brooklyn, not Baghdad.
Rotten to the core
Geraldine Sealey
Trust us
Tim Grieve
Defending the administration's enemy-combatant policy, the Justice Department told the Supreme Court that the U.S. doesn't torture prisoners. Just hours later, the Abu Ghraib story broke. Did the U.S. intentionally mislead the court?
Letters
Salon Staff
An eloquent mixture of disgust and respect: Readers respond to Salon's posting of the Nick Berg video.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Pat Tillman: Hero, victim or mere disposable celebrity? The readers write.
Strategic decision
Sidney Blumenthal
Growing sentiment in the Army: Support our troops, impeach Rumsfeld.
Thursday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
“The place is broken”
Mary Jacoby
CIA veteran Bob Baer says torture was forbidden when he worked for the agency. "Now contractors are sent out to torture people to death and then hide it."
Tuesday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
Time to get out?
Michelle Goldberg
With the war in Iraq turning into a nightmare, increasing numbers -- on the left and the right -- are calling for America to withdraw.
“Sometimes they pretended to kill me”
Phillip Robertson
An Al-Jazeera cameraman detained and tortured at Abu Ghraib recalls beatings, threats and photos of torture victims used as screen savers on military PCs.
Lack of protection
Joe Conason
Long before Abu Ghraib, senior officers warned that Bush appointees in the Pentagon were undermining prisoner safeguards.
“Stress and duress”
Tim Grieve
Human Rights Watch's Kenneth Roth says America's use of coercive interrogation techniques inevitably leads to nightmares like Abu Ghraib.
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