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I married a bin Laden
Suzy Hansen
Osama's former sister-in-law tells all: Secret Saudi lesbian trysts, a husband who ordered her to have abortions, and the magical power of the name bin Laden within the Saudi luxury class.
How the Democrats lost the heartland
Andrew O'Hehir
Thomas Frank talks about why Middle America, once a bastion of left-wing populism, has become red-state Republican.
The United States of Texas
Farhad Manjoo
Two new books document the death grip that Bush, Cheney and their corporate cronies have on America.
Waiting for Bill
Rebecca Traister
Bouncers, actors, bankers, immigrants and preteens all agree: The former president rocks!
Paul Wolfowitz is puzzled
Stephen W. Stromberg
Monday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
Torture’s dark allure
Darius Rejali
It gives its practitioners a drug-like rush. But
it leaves a legacy of destruction that takes generations to undo.
“America’s blankness”
Stephen Holmes
A professor explains why so many people around the world hate us and what a post-Bush foreign policy might look like.
Thursday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
The rule of the turban
Mary Jacoby
Paul Wolfowitz eulogized the fallen Shiite leader as an Iraqi Abraham Lincoln. But his group seems more intent on making Iraq conform to the principles of the Ayatollah Khomeini.
“A temporary coup”
Mark Follman
Author Thomas Powers says the White House's corruption of intelligence has caused the greatest foreign policy catastrophe in modern U.S. history -- and sparked a civil war with the nation's intel agencies.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers appreciate a reprieve from the mainstream media's Reagan lovefest. Plus: At least a few Nader Republicans reportedly exist.
Reagan worship
Eric Boehlert
The "liberal media's" unprecedented 24/7 gushing over a controversial and divisive president caps a quarter-century of fawning.
Letters
Salon Staff
Responses to Ann Marlowe on Raphael Patai's influential book "The Arab Mind" run the gamut from healthy skepticism to outright sarcasm -- "Hello! Ms. Marlowe, it's called a discourse."
Rewriting the script
Sidney Blumenthal
Unlike the current occupant of the White House, Reagan was willing to improvise on the far-right script, which is what ultimately saved his presidency.
Putting Reagan on the scales
Jeff Horwitz, Compiled by Jeff Nachtigal
Martin Anderson, John Judis, Michael Lind and others weigh in on the Hollywood presidency, the end of communism, Iran-Contra and the paradoxes of Reagan's career.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Steyn and Noonan celebrate Reagan as a man who saw the world more clearly than the political elite; Coulter trashes Gore as a fat white guy with no political rhythm. Plus: Bradbury rips Michael Moore.
Reagan without sentimentality
Joe Conason
He told us government was the problem -- and his corruption-plagued administration made sure of it.
In the polls
Geraldine Sealey
The Reagan legacy
Rick Perlstein
He was a true believer who moved the country divisively to the right. But compared to the current president, Ronald Reagan looks like a moderate.
Monday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
One George down, one to go
Martin Sieff
George Tenet was a hapless bumbler who deserved his fate. But as long as the high-ranking Bush cronies who are really responsible for the Iraq nightmare sit safely inside the Pentagon, Americans will not be satisfied.
Tenet’s choice
Mary Jacoby
Was the CIA director pushed out by a White House looking for a scapegoat on Iraq and 9/11? Or did he flee before Bush could make him the fall guy?
Friday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
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