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“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.
“Abuse”? How about torture
Sidney Blumenthal
The Bush administration has created a gulag that stretches from Afghanistan to Iraq, from Guantanamo to secret CIA prisons around the world.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Conservatives debate torture by the U.S. military in Iraq: Some call it "sickening" while others claim it could save lives. Plus: The clash of civilizaciones.
Premature panic
Tim Grieve
The doom-and-gloom brigade is savaging Kerry because the race is still tied after Bush's horrible April. But the campaign has barely begun.
The year the GOP turned right
James Chace
When Teddy Roosevelt lost the 1912 election, the Republicans started down the road that led to George W. Bush.
The “Velvet-Strike” underground
Jennifer Buckendorff
Taking protests to the street is old hat. Today's rabble-rousers wave their signs inside video games.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Singling Pat Tillman out as a hero doesn't insult the others making the same sacrifice he did. The NFL player who joined the Army and died in combat really was special to us.
Why John Kerry should run on 9/12
Arianna Huffington
While the Bush campaign focuses on Americans' fear of terrorism, Kerry should appeal to the American legacy that Bush has squandered: National service, shared sacrifice and hope.
The Fix
Salon Staff
McCain stands up for Koppel, Schwarzenegger offended by bobblehead, and Tarantino has Brosnan's Bond support.
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