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  • We got him -- now what?

    Bush and his allies are celebrating the capture of Saddam Hussein, but they may come to regret it.
    By Robert Scheer December 17, 2003

  • Right Hook

    The Weekly Standard insists Saddam helped al-Qaida; Den Beste says U.S. now more likely to use nukes. Plus: Conservatives beat down Abercrombie's "porn for kids."
    By Mark Follman December 3, 2003

  • The Republican Party's patriotism

    Equating criticism with cowardice is dirty politics at its absolute lowest.
    By Robert Scheer November 26, 2003

  • The chaos of war spreads to Saudi Arabia, Turkey

    Author Jessica Stern says the recent bombings in Istanbul and Riyadh show that the U.S. war on terror is deeply flawed.
    By Mark Follman November 21, 2003

  • Why the antiwar left must confront terrorism

    The director of Amnesty International USA warns that the left must confront terror with the same zeal that it battles Bush -- or risk irrelevance.
    By Mark Follman November 15, 2003

  • The great debate, reloaded

    Has the Iraq war made Americans safer? Nine months after their first encounter, Christopher Hitchens and Mark Danner cross swords once more.
    By Gary Kamiya November 11, 2003

  • A predictable tragedy

    The government knows that Iraqi insurgents have a cache of shoulder-launched missiles. So why are troops still ferried in unprotected aircraft?
    By Paul J. Caffera November 4, 2003

  • Right Hook

    Pipes and Krauthammer warn of a second Holocaust; Taranto accuses Red Cross of coddling terrorists; WorldNetDaily claims al-Qaida may have set California fires.
    By Mark Follman October 29, 2003

  • Did the Saudis know about 9/11?

    A new book claims that Saudi princes and a Pakistani official knew Osama bin Laden would strike America that day. But some critics say the whole story could be a neoconservative fabrication.
    By Mark Follman October 18, 2003

  • Bush abandons troop-protection plan

    A decision by the White House and a GOP-dominated Congress would leave troop-transport jets vulnerable to missile attack.
    By Paul J. Caffera September 27, 2003

  • When corrections need correcting

    The Bush team has a clever ploy: Tell politically useful lies VERY LOUDLY, then whisper a correction.
    By Robert Scheer September 17, 2003

  • Terrorist threat or political hype?

    Top Bush administration officials called the bust of arms dealer Hemant Lakhani last week a major blow against terrorism. Security experts are skeptical.
    By Paul J. Caffera August 19, 2003

  • Are we safer now?

    The war on Saddam has made the U.S. less secure, say foreign-policy experts.
    By Eric Boehlert July 31, 2003

  • Bush's biggest whopper

    The president's 16-word stretcher about African uranium was nothing compared to his lie about the links between Osama and Saddam.
    By David Corn July 24, 2003

  • The Moussaoui nightmare

    The so-called 20th hijacker looked like a slam-dunk case for federal prosecutors. Now everything has changed.
    By Eric Boehlert July 11, 2003

  • Bush's 9/11 coverup?

    Family members of victims of the terror attacks say the White House has smothered every attempt to get to the bottom of the outrageous intelligence failures that took place on its watch.
    By Eric Boehlert June 18, 2003

  • A change of heart in the Saudi media

    The fall of Baghdad and the bombings in Riyadh have made the Arab News think seriously about the enemy within, says the paper's editor.
    By Mark Follman May 17, 2003

  • Fury and favor in the Arab world

    While Qatar welcomes Uncle Sam, Egyptian police torture antiwar protesters. If the war lasts long, some say, the scales may tip toward rage.
    By Eric Boehlert April 4, 2003

  • Home Front: Life during wartime

    Fox hates the protesters, the U.S. hates the French, and Slovenia wants out! Plus: War comes to a playground in Brooklyn.
    By Sheerly Avni March 28, 2003

  • Down with Saddam -- up with Palestine

    America should force the Israelis and Palestinians to make peace. But even if it doesn't, war with Iraq is justified and necessary.
    By Ferry Biedermann March 18, 2003

  • My Arab street

    I live blocks away from the Brooklyn mosque accused of funding al-Qaida, where angry Muslim men rage against John Ashcroft, blame 9/11 on the Jews, and ask me out for coffee.
    By Michelle Goldberg March 7, 2003

  • Is Big Brother our only hope against bin Laden?

    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.
    By Farhad Manjoo December 3, 2002

  • The air industry's worst nightmare

    Just days ago, national security executives met secretly with airline CEOs to warn them that al-Qaida may be planning to fire shoulder-launched missiles at commercial jets in the U.S. There's virtually no defense.
    By Paul J. Caffera November 22, 2002

  • Pulling the trigger on Saddam

    In Quest for Hussein, you can invade Iraq all by yourself. But is ousting this evil dictator worth the effort?
    By Farhad Manjoo November 12, 2002

  • How to defeat the Axis of Evil

    The United States has more powerful weapons than planes and tanks: Trade, aid and Hollywood.
    By Robert Scheer October 24, 2002
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