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Susan Sontag’s final wish
Steve Paulson
She wanted hope, a reason to believe she would survive cancer. In a candid interview, her son, David Rieff, discusses his mother's battle to live and his struggle to hide the truth.
Bringing Iran in from the cold
Gary Kamiya
Iran isn't a mad state bent on Israel's destruction but a rational actor that wants a place at the table.
The emperor’s new peace plan
Gary Kamiya
Barring a miracle, Bush's Annapolis charade will make matters in the Middle East much worse.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke lead the outstanding cast of the overheated "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead." Plus: Jimmy Carter charms. Anthony Hopkins confounds.
How the Democrats blew it
Gary Kamiya
The Iraq debacle handed Democrats a golden opportunity to deal the GOP a mortal blow and change America's flawed Mideast policies. They played it safe.
What Ahmadinejad said
Salon Staff
The Iranian president made a controversial appearance at Columbia University on Monday; read his remarks here.
Bush’s tangled arms deal
Gary Kamiya
By selling weapons to "moderate" states, Bush would again be playing puppet master and jerking around the Middle East with disastrous consequences.
Spinning the disaster in Gaza
Aluf Benn
Bush and Olmert scramble to prop up Abbas, but the Hamas takeover boosts Iran and leaves hopes for a Palestinian state in tatters.
“Hamastan” vs. “Fatahstan”
Christoph Schult
Hamas' violent takeover in Gaza leaves the Palestinian territories divided, and U.S. and Israeli strategy under a cloud.
“America at a Crossroads” veers to the right
Gary Kamiya
The highly touted PBS series on Islam and terrorism casts a cold eye on Bush's Iraq disaster -- but fails to examine Mideast history or America's failed policies in the region.
Letter from Gaza
Mitchell Prothero
What the death and burial of 16-year-old Nahid al-Shanbari says about Hamas.
Last chance for Mideast peace
Gary Kamiya
While Bush and Olmert cling to their hard line, hope for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is slipping away forever.
Can American Jews unplug the Israel lobby?
Gary Kamiya
As Bush's unbalanced Mideast policies careen from disaster to disaster, people who don't toe the AIPAC line are beginning to speak out.
Dick Cheney’s warped vision of the world
Glenn Greenwald
The bloodthirsty speech delivered to AIPAC by Dick Cheney yesterday reveals all one needs to know about why America is losing the "war of ideas."
The Palestinians’ war within
Yassin Musharbash
Fatah leader Abdallah Frangi talks about the violent power struggle raging between his party and Hamas -- "the worst we've experienced in Palestinian history."
Nation building
Jonathan Shainin
Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi explains why Palestinians have failed to create a nation and discusses the grave situation in the Middle East.
Finding “The Lost”
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon Book Award winner Daniel Mendelsohn discusses his search for missing relatives, the "overfamiliarity" of the Holocaust, and why we should listen to our elders.
“The Lost”
Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn remembers the strange effect he had as a boy on his kin in this excerpt.
A bombshell with a long fuse
Gary Kamiya
The Iraq Study Group report may be DOA. But it shows the Washington establishment is finally confronting reality in the Middle East.
How Edward Said took intellectuals for a ride
Gary Kamiya
The famous professor and Palestine advocate claimed that bigoted Western stereotypes about the Orient support imperialism. But Middle East scholar Robert Irwin proves it was Said who didn't have the full picture.
Salvaging Bush’s Mideast disaster
Gary Kamiya
The real "front line of the war on terror" is Palestine. By brokering a lasting peace, the U.S. can make up for Bush's colossal blunders.
Peace in the Mideast, via the Internet?
Andrew Leonard
The Alliance of Civilizations asks for more cross-cultural dialogue. Is anyone listening?
Hillary is us
Rebecca Traister
Feminists want to see in Hillary Rodham Clinton what they want to see in themselves. With expectations so high, can the potential presidential candidate do anything but let women down?
West Bank beer fest
Rachel Shabi
A Christian-Palestinian microbrewery is defying the hardships of occupation -- and perhaps Hamas' vision for an alcohol-free Islamic state.
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