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Monday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
The other regime change
Max Blumenthal
Did the Bush administration allow a network of right-wing Republicans to foment a violent coup in Haiti?
Joseph Wilson vs. the right-wing conspiracy
Mary Jacoby
Gleeful conservatives insist the Senate Intelligence Committee report impeached the former ambassador's claims about Iraq and uranium. But Wilson is firing back.
Will women change Afghanistan?
Duncan Campbell
More than two million women have registered to vote in Afghanistan's forthcoming elections despite repeated threats and violence from the Taliban.
The real flip-flopper
Arianna Huffington
The list of Bush's major policy U-turns is as audacious as it is long.
Between Iraq and a hard place
Steven A. Cook
From the Iraq quagmire to our incoherent Saudi relationship to our pro-Sharon tilt, U.S. Mideast policy is a shambles.
British intelligence backs off Iraq claims
Richard Norton-Taylor
Agency reconsiders charge that Saddam could have quickly deployed chemical and biological weapons.
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.
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