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Magic carpet ride

Phillip Robertson

I went to visit an Afghan opium bazaar -- but they wouldn't open their stalls until I returned with the police.

01/24/2002 22:06 EST

Houston under siege

Katharine Mieszkowski

Residents of Enron's hometown can't stop comparing the collapse of the energy trader to Sept. 11.

01/24/2002 20:30 EST

Love, Jalalabad style

Phillip Robertson

Since the Taliban fell, weddings are a time to sing and drink and party. But some things haven't changed: Nadar didn't meet his bride until their wedding day.

01/23/2002 23:11 EST

With the al-Qaida network shattered but Osama bin Laden still at large, "Black Hawk Down" author Mark Bowden and other national security experts discuss when the U.S. will be able to declare victory over terrorism.

01/20/2002 00:41 EST

Refugees the U.N. won’t see

Phillip Robertson

At the Sar Shahi refugee camp, the thousands of widows, amputees, children and unemployed men who occupy the acres of patchwork tents find themselves in assistance limbo.

01/19/2002 22:22 EST

A passage through Peshawar

Phillip Robertson

Manzoor the fixer takes care of everything I need -- permits, bribes, even a bodyguard -- and then says goodbye at the Afghanistan border.

01/18/2002 21:42 EST

Stuck outside of Kabul … with the nuclear blues again

Phillip Robertson

Musharraf is afraid of losing a war, while Vajpayee is afraid of losing an election. It's hideous politics that makes rational people like me want to drink too many gin and tonics.

01/17/2002 23:14 EST

Noam Chomsky

Suzy Hansen

The nation's most implacable critic of U.S. foreign policy argues that the war is unjust, America is the biggest terrorist state and intellectuals always support official violence.

01/16/2002 20:00 EST

Don’t blame Clinton

Joe Conason

Conservatives who once ridiculed and obstructed the former president's aggressive efforts to fight terrorism are now trying to pin Sept. 11 on him. They have a lot of nerve. Part 2 of a debate.

01/15/2002 23:47 EST

I was a cowboy for the CIA

Laura Miller

A tough-guy field agent blasts wimpy pencil pushers and "politics" for keeping him from lassoing terrorist evildoers. He's right -- but you wouldn't want his kind in charge, either.

01/15/2002 20:00 EST

Cold, hard facts

Norah Vincent

The new Cold War will be dirty and covert -- and the Vietnam-era left better get used to it.

01/14/2002 21:49 EST

The ghost of terror past

Jake Tapper

As the Bush administration tries to push through controversial State Department nominee Otto Reich, critics suggest the White House has a troubling double standard when it comes to fighting evil.

01/11/2002 23:09 EST

While Clinton diddled

Andrew Sullivan

The record doesn't lie. The former president had repeated warnings and wake-up calls, but he failed to protect the country against the growing danger of Islamic terrorism. Part 1 of a debate.

01/09/2002 23:37 EST

Our favorite books

Laura Miller

From a gripping novel about terrorism to the memoir of a cross-country stripteaser, we pick the best -- that is, the most pleasurable -- reading experiences of 2001.

01/09/2002 20:26 EST