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Keeping Congress in the dark
Geraldine Sealey
Secret plans and slush funds
Geraldine Sealey
Friday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
Warriors for hire in Iraq
P.W. Singer
More than 15,000 employees of private military contractors, from giant Halliburton to tiny commando firms, are working, fighting and dying alongside U.S. soldiers. But who calls the shots in an outsourced war?
Robert Scheer
Salon Staff
President Bush failed to focus on terrorism prior to 9/11. Instead, his administration pursued the war on drugs -- and even coddled the Taliban.
From swatting flies to stirring up hornets’ nests
Husain Haqqani
A new terrorist document shows that as the U.S. flails in Iraq, only al-Qaida seems to have a strategy.
Inside the ghost town
Phillip Robertson
The silent streets of Baghdad tell an ominous tale: A year after Saddam's fall, the hope and optimism that followed the American invasion are dead.
John Kerry: The video game
Wagner James Au
In "Battlefield Vietnam," a new version of one of the most popular games in the U.S., you too can try to win a Silver Star saving your buddies in the jungle.
Dubya’s angels
Suzy Hansen
Laura Flanders talks about her book "Bushwomen," and why the media has given a free pass to Condi Rice, Christie Whitman, Elaine Chao and the other women who've put a pretty face on ugly policies.
Missing in action
Tim Grieve
As the war in Iraq spins out of control, why isn't John Kerry launching a frontal assault on Bush's failed policies?
Be very afraid
Mark Follman
President Bush has used the politics of fear to sell his policies and stifle opponents. With events turning against him, will that strategy backfire?
The performer lost in her performance
Alan Gilbert
Condoleezza Rice was my graduate student, and a woman raised to excel. But she failed the American people because she forgot a higher duty than excellence: Truth.
Clarke: Condi corroborates my claims
Geraldine Sealey
How the war in Iraq has damaged the war on terrorism
Jessica Stern
A terrorism expert formerly on the National Security Council explains why Richard Clarke is right and Condoleezza Rice is wrong.
The rise of the baby al-Qaidas
Husain Haqqani
Bush's failed strategy in the war on terrorism has spawned more al-Qaidas -- and they're funded by the booming heroin traffic in Afghanistan.
Creating the enemy
Robert Scheer
It's the beginning of the end for the U.S. in Iraq, and no amount of Bush spin can hide that.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
As violence erupts across Iraq, conservatives wonder if Iraqis are expressing their "natural" barbarity, whether AP conspired with killers to publicize grisly Fallujah photos, and if the U.S. shouldn't simply "nuke the Sunni Triangle."
“A very bloody summer ahead”
Mark Follman
Violence in Falluja and Sadr City may not herald all-out civil war, but it is likely to continue as the U.S. struggles with the lack of a clear transition plan in Iraq.
Tuesday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
The detour war
Geraldine Sealey
Monday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
Economist reconsiders ‘Toxic Texan’
Geraldine Sealey
That audacious Richard Clarke
Karen Kwiatkowski
The Bush-Cheney campaign is riding a rickety horse to November: Their approach to war on terror.
Condi’s conundrum
David Corn
When Condoleezza Rice appears before the 9/11 commission, here's what she should be asked.
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