• A great job?

    Bush is running on empty -- with neocon fantasies, Chalabi's con and bright young right-wingers recruited to run Iraq.
    By Joe Conason May 25, 2004

  • Right Hook

    Defending Bush's 9/11 ads, former White House speechwriter David Frum says terrorists will rejoice if Kerry wins the election.
    By Mark Follman March 10, 2004

  • Blogging toward freedom

    The more Iranian hard-liners crack down, the more blogs dedicated to changing the system spring up.
    By Luke Thomas February 28, 2004

  • "An End to Evil" by David Frum and Richard Perle

    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.
    By Gary Kamiya January 30, 2004

  • The monster we helped create

    For the White House, a complete investigation into those who abetted Saddam's crimes against humanity would prove an embarrassing two-edged sword.
    By Robert Scheer January 2, 2004

  • The liberation tango

    Having failed to find WMD, Bush is desperate to discover something even more elusive in Iraq: A representative government that won't threaten U.S. interests. He won't.
    By Robert Scheer December 3, 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

  • Is Iran next?

    Tehran is a year or two away from acquiring nuclear weapons. Is the Bush administration willing to go to war -- again -- to stop it?
    By Mark Follman July 10, 2003

  • Letters

    Readers respond to recent articles on the Gray Davis recall campaign, MoveOn.org's virtual vote, and the influence of Iranian dissident groups from abroad.
    June 25, 2003

  • "To have freedom or to die"

    An Iranian dissident leader says a week of protests has set the stage for regime change. He welcomes President Bush's support, but warns against U.S. military action.
    By Mark Follman June 20, 2003

  • Letters

    Readers respond to "Bush's 9/11 Coverup?" by Eric Boehlert, and "Shocking Silence," by Andrew Sullivan.
    June 19, 2003

  • An artistic orphan in the big city

    Amir Naderi, who brought Iranian cinema to the world's attention in the '80s with the international hit "The Runner," has been making films in New York since 1993. Who knew?
    By David Ng June 11, 2003

  • Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? The ayatollahs are

    Two dazzling new books take the reader into the hidden spaces of freedom carved out by courageous Iranian women.
    By Michelle Goldberg May 5, 2003

  • Syria: Hoping the U.S. fails

    While the regime hopes the U.S. stumbles into a quagmire, Iraqi exiles argue about whether Bush or Saddam is the bigger enemy.
    By Ferry Biedermann April 9, 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

  • Down from the mountains to die

    Three Islamist zealots descend a mountain in a driving rainstorm to kill their Kurdish enemies -- and themselves.
    By Phillip Robertson March 28, 2003

  • Make wanderlust, not war

    Americans should stop listening to the fear-mongers and travel overseas. It's the best way to start bringing the U.S. back into the world community.
    By Jeff Greenwald March 26, 2003

  • What the Cheney White House really wants out of Iraq

    For the morally flexible oilman and his cronies, it's all about money.
    By Arianna Huffington February 19, 2003

  • Shock troops for Bush

    Partisans of the extreme right gathered outside of Washington this weekend to cheer on Cheney and Coulter -- and vent their rage at the liberals who rule America.
    By Michelle Goldberg February 4, 2003

  • Radical humanist, Iraq hawk

    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.
    By Michelle Goldberg December 20, 2002

  • Bush's frightening Middle East appointment

    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.
    By Gary Kamiya December 10, 2002

  • Monsters of our own creation

    In Iraq and Afghanistan, our current allies will be tomorrow's enemies.
    By Robert Scheer August 21, 2002

  • Conservative squeeze play

    It was bad enough when right-wing ideologues convinced Bush to orate about the "axis of evil." But now they want him to really do something about it.
    By Scott Rosenberg March 6, 2002

  • Make Iran a friend, not a foe

    President Bush's demonizing of Iran is a shortsighted move that misses a rare opportunity to improve relations with a crucial regional player.
    By Cameron Kamran February 12, 2002

  • Iranians to Bush: Take this axis of evil and shove it

    Most believe that the president's speech was ignorant bullying that will only slow reform.
    By Haleh Anvari February 7, 2002
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