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Scholars flunk Bush on foreign policy
Jeff Horwitz
Word History: NADER
Evan Eisenberg
Nader (NAY-dur) n. Low point, as of a celestial body that has declined from an exalted height.
It can happen here
James P. Pinkerton
"Guantanamo," now playing in New York, warns that the liberties the U.S. government has taken abroad in the name of homeland security present grave threats to our own civil liberties.
The future of Islam
Andrew Anthony
Can Ken Bigley's death by beheading help rescue a religion of peace from violence?
Getting all pissy
Joyce McGreevy
In a painstaking recap of the second presidential debate, the audience comes out ahead.
Al-Qaida has “no place to plan,” wink wink
Geraldine Sealey
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
USA Today invades the pilot's turf. Outraged readers rise up in unholy wrath. Mongolia and Finland are somehow involved.
The GOP spin: The burden is on Kerry
Tim Grieve
Looking for votes, finding America
Jonathan Alford
Scared, angry and needing to act, I left California to volunteer for John Kerry in Pennsylvania. I changed some minds -- including my own.
Divorced from reality
Geraldine Sealey
“Do you think we are mad?”
Jamie Wilson
The weapons inspectors who interviewed Saddam say he was obsessed with security -- and more concerned about deterring Iran than taking on the U.S.
A diminishing threat
Julian Borger
Contradicting almost every assertion by the Bush administration about Saddam's capabilities, U.S. inspectors deliver their verdict: There were no WMD in Iraq.
Down, dirty and dull
Tim Grieve
Dick Cheney and John Edwards came out swinging, but the only people they knocked out were in the audience.
In polls we trust?
Farhad Manjoo
Bush leads by 10 points. No, wait, Kerry's up by 5. No, Nader's on top! OK -- that's not true, but in the ever crazier world of election polls, who knows what's next?
FactCheck.what?
Geraldine Sealey
Halliburton’s problematic Cheney connection
David Teather
Hoping to escape the election spotlight, the vice president's old firm may shed its KBR division, the one doing billions of dollars of work in Iraq.
Why are we in Iraq?
John Judis
In "The Folly of Empire," John Judis argues that Bush is repeating the imperialist mistakes committed by Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
American history that Bush forgot
Jeff Horwitz
New Republic senior editor John Judis talks with Salon about his new book, the Iraq war's grim precedents, and the next president's desperate need to have a heart-to-heart with Syria and Iran.
Coal: Clean, green power machine?
Katharine Mieszkowski
Forget about that nasty oil or radioactive nuclear waste: If you want to breathe fresh air, says the coal industry, burn, baby, burn!
Dissecting Cheney
James K. Galbraith
The vice president's fantasy of world domination via control of oil stems from his formative years in the shadow Cold War.
The State Department’s extreme makeover
Anonymous
A veteran Foreign Service officer warns that when Colin Powell departs in a second Bush term, America will lose its last bulwark against the radical ideologues who are planning more Iraqs.
Oil: The real threat to national security
Michael T. Klare
Forget about terrorism -- the true enemy is American dependence on energy resources in unstable foreign countries.
Winning the war of words
Matthew Craft
In the battle over political language, the "flip-flop" tag is but the latest GOP victory. Progressive linguist George Lakoff explains how Democrats can reframe the debate.
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