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Rumsfeld drops in on Iraq
Aaron Kinney
A surprise visit to promote the partial withdrawal of U.S. troops early next year.
The Iraq war is over, and the winner is… Iran
Juan Cole
Hamstrung by the Iraq debacle, all Bush can do is gnash his teeth as the hated mullahs in Iran cozy up to their co-religionists in Iraq.
“Does the President think Karl Rove did something wrong, or doesn’t he?”
Salon Staff
The White House press corps still wants to know. Bush spokesman Scott McClellan isn't helping much.
The television will be revolutionized
Farhad Manjoo
Al Gore promises that Current TV will be as interactive and democratic as the Internet. But already his restless young audience is wondering whether the network will be another rerun.
Empty words
Sidney Blumenthal
Trying to revive his political credibility, Bush succeeded only in reminding us how clueless and reckless he has been as commander in chief.
“Clean up this mess”
Salon Staff
Sen. John Kerry says that President Bush will never be effective in Iraq until he first breaks down his wall of arrogance.
What would Kerry do?
Tim Grieve
Imagine a universe in which the 53 percent of the public that disapproves of Bush's job performance now had voted in accordance with those feelings back in November.
And what about Iran?
Aaron Kinney
What does the election of a hard-line conservative president augur for U.S.-Iran relations?
Kerry, Dems demand Downing Street inquiry
Tim Grieve
The former presidential candidate vowed that he would make an issue of the Downing Street memo in Congress. Now he has.
A turning point at home
Sidney Blumenthal
The more Bush promises a "light at the end of the tunnel," the more the
American public grows disillusioned with the war in Iraq.
“Get moving”
Tim Grieve
Wes Clark talks about cleaning up the mess in Iraq and says Democrats better start convincing Americans that they can keep our country safe.
Cooking up some intel for Iran next?
Mark Follman
Could the hunt for the elusive Osama bin Laden lead to Tehran?
No democracy for you
Lailee Mendelson
My Iranian cousin consoled me when Kerry went down in November, and now I can only return the sympathy as hard-line conservatives rise again in his country.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Possibly the ickiest allegations about the Clintons yet. Christina Aguilera's music: Torture?
The Middle East’s real problem: The mafia
Ferry Biedermann
How can democracy take root in countries run by capi di tutti capi? And after the Iraq debacle, can Bush really be considering making Syria, too, an offer it can't refuse?
The last laugh
Joe Conason
History will hold Bush and Blair accountable for their lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, even if the D.C. press corps just finds them funny.
The I-word
Mark Tushnet, Jack Rakove, Michael J. Gerhardt, Cass Sunstein
Ralph Nader says the Downing Street memo is grounds to debate the impeachment of the president. Four constitutional scholars weigh the issue.
What Deep Throat was up to
Sidney Blumenthal
Mark Felt fought a covert battle against Nixon's plan to create an imperial presidency. But could he have prevailed against George W. Bush, who has created a kingdom beyond even Nixon's dreams?
U.N. nuke alert
Ian Traynor
The IAEA says several sets of blueprints for building uranium centrifuges are missing, and it worries about who may have bought them.
The Downing Street memo
Salon Staff
"The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy, ... and there was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."
An epidemic failure
Geraldine Sealey
President Bush claims he is leading the world in the fight against global AIDS. But he has been inexplicably stingy and slow to act -- and by placing religion over science, he's responsible for the loss of untold numbers of lives.
Up with people
Simon Tisdall
The "no" votes in France and the Netherlands are a blow to Europe's political elite but a victory for its citizens.
The nuclear bully
Ian Williams
The Bush administration tried and failed to strong-arm the rest of the world on nukes. As a result, the chances of runaway proliferation are higher than they've been in decades.
The questions that weren’t asked
Tim Grieve
It took a couple of junior Metro reporters to break the Watergate story. What will it take to get somebody to ask Bush about the Downing Street memo?
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