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The reporter they left behind
Mariane Pearl
Two years after my husband, Danny Pearl, was kidnapped and murdered, his employers at the Wall Street Journal seem all too willing to forget.
“Everywhere people are less puritanical — except in the U.S.”
Charles Taylor
Legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci on America's sexual backwardness -- and why Jake Gyllenhaal wouldn't take off his clothes.
“An End to Evil” by David Frum and Richard Perle
Gary Kamiya
Undaunted by the Iraq debacle, uber-hawks David Frum and Richard Perle air their fevered wet dream of a national-security superstate that slaps down uppity Muslims, bombs North Korea, slices and dices civil liberties and scatters the Palestinians like birdseed.
Enter the ayatollahs
Jen Banbury
Will Iraq turn into an Iranian-style theocracy or a more tolerant Muslim state? As zero hour for America's grand experiment approaches, Shiite leaders hold the key.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Dissecting the Dems: John Kerry's "floppo karaoke" may be no match for John Edwards, the "happy populist." Plus: Bush's new "compassionate counter-proliferation," and martyring Mel Gibson.
The conservatives are outraged — about Bush
Michelle Goldberg
At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, foot soldiers of the right rail against the big-government, free-spending ways of the White House.
The Bush dynasty’s dark magic
Joan Walsh
One-time Republican hero Kevin Phillips dares to speak up against the Walker-Bush oligarchy that rules the American state through oil, intelligence, big money and the power of the Christian right.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
State of the Bush doctrine: Iraq-war hawks wonder whether administration distortions of prewar intelligence now cast an "ugly shadow" on U.S. foreign policy. Plus: "Dean Loses It."
The gamer of Baghdad
Wagner James Au
While missiles crashed around him, Zeyad struggled to keep Crash Bandicoot alive. Today, he continues to play, even as Baathist holdouts rage on and his frustrated countrymen demand a better future.
The no jobs president
James K. Galbraith
Don't believe the Bush administration's hand-wringing over its pathetic record on employment. The president's backers want a stagnant job market -- it keeps the help from getting uppity.
How Satan is propping up Bush’s war on terror
Andrew O'Hehir
An obsession with the devil, born out of personal experience, explains why so many fundamentalist Christians believe that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were working together.
The Axis of War: Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz
Salon Staff
Sen. Ted Kennedy: "We cannot simply walk away from the wreckage of a war we never should have fought so that President Bush can wage a political campaign based on dubious boasts of success."
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
A must-read article in the Washington Post reveals why Saddam's weapons of mass destruction will almost certainly never be found: They haven't existed since the end of the last Gulf War.
A year without hope
Aluf Benn
With Israeli and Palestinian leaders hobbled and Bush fearful of intervening in an election year, there will be no progress toward Middle East peace until at least 2005.
The Fix
Amy Reiter
"I'm looking forward to my next opportunity": A survey of the best recent exit lines, from network execs, politicos and sports leaders. Plus, Morning Briefing: Gwyneth, Courtney and Britney.
The monster we helped create
Robert Scheer
For the White House, a complete investigation into those who abetted Saddam's crimes against humanity would prove an embarrassing two-edged sword.
We got him — now what?
Robert Scheer
Bush and his allies are celebrating the capture of Saddam Hussein, but they may come to regret it.
Wesley Clark: Restore unity with Europe
Salon Staff
The Democratic candidate says Bush's token alliances with Tonga and the Marshall Islands are no substitute for key European allies in the global fight against terror.
Imagining Saddam’s trial
Barry Lando
The deposed dictator might call Donald Rumsfeld and a host of American leaders -- as defense witnesses.
Dean: Saddam doesn’t change my mind about Iraq
Mark Follman
Displaying the graciousness of a front-runner, the Democratic candidate gives Bush a pass for a day on Iraq -- but keeps pummeling him on everything else.
Fill ‘er up — with taxpayer dollars
Mark Follman
Congressional watchdog Henry Waxman attacks Dick Cheney's former employer Halliburton for pumping up the price of gas in Iraq.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Fox News' Oliver North claims liberal media inspires terrorists; U.S. Army says Iraqis need "a heavy dose of fear and violence." Plus: Why Reagan was too busy to fight AIDS.
The power of prophecy
Laura Miller
Mike Nichols' HBO production of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" brings the most glorious, most thrilling and most painful work of contemporary American theater into the living room.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
The Republican effort to replace FDR's profile on the dime with an image of Ronald Reagan may not garner the dying ex-president the praise they intend.
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