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Understanding Kim Jong Il
Laura McClure
He likes fast cars and fast women, he's been implicated in murder and terrorism, and now he's got nuclear weapons. But dismissing the North Korean dictator as crazy plays into his hands.
Bush’s illogical foreign policy
Robert Scheer
The nuclear threat from North Korea reveals the limits of the Bush administration's preemption doctrine.
Radical humanist, Iraq hawk
Michelle Goldberg
Kanan Makiya, an Iraqi progressive living in exile, welcomes U.S. intervention as the best chance for freedom in his country. And he wonders why U.S. leftists aren't with him.
To know America is to love America?
Michelle Goldberg
Advertising maven Charlotte Beers is trying to sell the U.S. to the Muslim world, but nobody's buying it.
Bush’s drive for global abstinence
Laura McClure
At a United Nations conference in Bangkok, the U.S. shocks more than 30 Asian countries with a condemnation of premarital sex, contraception and abortion.
Rock-ribbed Republican — and anti-Bush
Michelle Goldberg
The newest, most outspoken critics of the war on terrorism and Iraq are conservatives.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "It's OK -- She's a Public Figure" by Keith Olbermann, the appointment of Elliott Abrams and the Republican reaction to Trent Lott.
Bush’s frightening Middle East appointment
Gary Kamiya
By naming Iran-contra rogue Elliott Abrams its top policy advisor on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the White House is signaling a hard
pro-Sharon line that could prove disastrous.
A front-row seat at war
Gary Kamiya
HBO's "Live From Baghdad" is the story of one of live journalism's finest hours -- and a cautionary tale for an increasingly docile press.
Falling arches
Michelle Goldberg
McDonald's is under fire all over the world -- with Thursday's bombing only the most recent. Can the fast-food conglomerate withstand the heat of global anti-Americanism?
Blind man’s brinksmanship
Eric Boehlert
Early signs suggest Saddam may deny that he has weapons of mass destruction -- just what White House hawks are hoping for.
What would Mohammed do?
Laura McClure
Geraldine Brooks, an expert on the role of women in Islam, says the "haters of beauty" behind the Miss World riots misrepresent what is a "pro-sexuality" religion.
Is Big Brother our only hope against bin Laden?
Farhad Manjoo
Civil libertarians are outraged about Total Information Awareness, the government's Orwellian plan to monitor everyone, all the time. But some computer scientists say it might be the only way to save civilization.
The decline and fall of the American empire
Suzy Hansen
An expert on geopolitics says forget Islamic terrorism -- the real future threat to America's supremacy will come from Europe.
“Grave questions of invasion of privacy”
Salon Staff
Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, warns that the Total Information Awareness program threatens our basic rights -- and questions whether Adm. Poindexter is the right man to run it.
The 9/11 movie Hollywood won’t let you see
Sarah Coleman
The "stridently anti-American" anthology film "11'09"01" is sometimes arty, sometimes preachy and sometimes brilliant. In Bush's America, it's also commercially untouchable.
Letters
Salon Staff
Donna Minkowitz responds to letters about an American nun tortured in Guatemala, and readers respond to "Oriana Fallaci Declares War on Radical Islam."
Fearing the U.S. — but hating Saddam more
Michelle Goldberg
Many of the millions of Iraqi exiles welcome war and hope Saddam will be ousted. That doesn't mean they trust the United States.
Democrats: Wrong in Iraq
Joshua Micah Marshall
The opposition party not only failed to articulate a good case against war -- it ducked the hard question of what to do about a dangerous dictator.
The moral case for war
Michelle Goldberg
Bob Kerrey, ex-senator, Vietnam vet and Bush critic, tells Salon why liberals should support ousting Saddam.
The powder keg
Michelle Goldberg
The U.S. helped build the Islamic fundamentalist movement threatening to take over Pakistan. Now can it rescue the world from the deadly consequences?
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to the Christopher Hitchens interview, "How the Left Became Irrelevant."
How the left became irrelevant
Edward W. Lempinen
Christopher Hitchens talks about his beef with the Nation, the "filthy menace" of Saddam Hussein, and how the left ceded its moral credibility by opposing the war against Islamic fascism.
Partying while Afghanistan burns
Phillip Robertson
While Westerners dance at end-of-the-world raves, the country slips back toward anarchy -- and the Bush administration does nothing.
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