Mark Benjamin

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  • Biological alarm in Washington

    Did terrorists attack Washington with a deadly pathogen?
    By Mark Benjamin October 18, 2005

  • 2,000 dead? Who cares?

    Why is the country so oblivious to the Iraq war's casualties?
    By Mark Benjamin October 10, 2005

  • Toxic gumbo

    The EPA is failing to protect the Gulf Coast's homebound citizens from Katrina's poisons.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski and Mark Benjamin October 6, 2005

  • Protecting America's wounded

    Democratic senators have stepped up to defend benefits for soldiers traumatized by combat.
    By Mark Benjamin September 24, 2005

  • The crony who prospered

    Joe Allbaugh was George W. Bush's good ol' boy in Texas. He hired his good friend Mike Brown to run FEMA. Now Brownie's gone and Allbaugh is living large.
    By Mark Benjamin September 16, 2005

  • Let's Iraq and roll

    In a surreal twist on the political demonstration, the Pentagon put on a show to mark 9/11 and honor U.S. troops serving in the war.
    By Mark Benjamin September 11, 2005

  • Brownout!

    By Mark Benjamin September 10, 2005

  • Communications breakdown

    As the Katrina disaster unfolded, many emergency responders had no way to talk to each other. Why were they so unprepared?
    By Mark Benjamin September 9, 2005

  • "Things are going remarkably well"

    Don't blame the federal government for the Katrina debacle, say GOP senators. And definitely don't ask the heads of Homeland Security and FEMA to testify before Congress.
    By Mark Benjamin September 7, 2005

  • The gravest job

    Identifying the dead in New Orleans will be a daunting chore, say medical experts. Bodies will be bloated, decomposed and difficult to distinguish from corpses washed from cemeteries.
    By Mark Benjamin September 3, 2005

  • A dry plan

    Louisiana's official hurricane plan says absolutely zero about how to handle an evacuation once New Orleans is flooded.
    By Mark Benjamin September 2, 2005

  • Off their guard

    The Gulf Coast disaster is further taxing the National Guard, already stretched to a breaking point in Iraq.
    By Mark Benjamin September 1, 2005

  • The bereaved rate Bush

    Recalling their meetings with the president, Cindy Sheehan says "he has no compassion" and Roxanne Kaylor calls him "a liar," but Sherry Orlando says he was "very sincere."
    By Mark Benjamin August 23, 2005

  • Sticker shock over shell shock

    The U.S. government is reviewing 72,000 cases in which veterans have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, claiming that misdiagnosis and fraud have inflated the numbers. Outraged vets say the plan is a callous attempt to cut the costs of an increasingly expensive war.
    By Mark Benjamin August 9, 2005

  • True confessions

    Men who have been through "ex-gay" Christian ministries share their stories. While some insist they have overcome homosexuality, others say they were driven to attempt suicide.
    July 21, 2005

  • Getting straight with God

    The Rev. J. Grace Harley used to be a lesbian who posed as a man to marry a woman. Now she has overcome cocaine and "little hot-to-trot women" and is speaking out to save homosexual sinners.
    By Mark Benjamin July 20, 2005

  • My gay therapy session

    To find out how "reparative therapy" works, I pretended to be gay. My licensed Christian therapist explained to me why homosexuality is a mental disorder, what the "Wizard of Oz principle" is, and why kids who can't "hit the ball or fire the gun" are more likely to be gay.
    By Mark Benjamin July 19, 2005

  • Turning off gays

    A loose network of Christian ministries and social workers, with the blessing of the political right, are putting gays and lesbians on the couch, determined to "cure" them.
    By Mark Benjamin July 18, 2005

  • Return of the body counts

    With Americans souring on the war in Iraq, the U.S. military has started talking up the number of insurgents killed. Are we headed down the same corrupting road we did in Vietnam?
    By Mark Benjamin June 11, 2005

  • Military injustice

    Iraq vet Jullian Goodrum blasted his superiors for misdeeds that he says cost a soldier his life. His reward: The Army he once loved refused to treat his psychological wounds, then charged him with desertion.
    By Mark Benjamin June 7, 2005

  • Ripped from my headlines!

    "Law and Order: SVU" pulls details from my reporting for its gripping finale. So why is the "reporter" such an ink-stained wretch?
    By Mark Benjamin May 25, 2005

  • Dinner is served

    A new Senate bill requires veterans hospitals to stop charging wounded soldiers for meals.
    By Mark Benjamin May 13, 2005

  • Golfing with Tom DeLay

    Playing through campaign finance laws, corporations are buying time with the House leader by donating to his foundations for abused kids. Meanwhile, the charities are spending more on the golf fundraisers than on the children.
    By Mark Benjamin May 2, 2005

  • How many have gone to war?

    Even experts are surprised at the vast numbers of U.S. soldiers who have been deployed after 9/11. Even if troop levels in Iraq are cut next year, the military may be permanently damaged.
    By Mark Benjamin April 12, 2005

  • Tough on terror, weak on guns

    Politicians in Washington are poised to give unprecedented freedom to the gun industry -- and they're so beholden to the NRA they're allowing potential terrorists to buy weapons over the counter.
    By Mark Benjamin March 28, 2005
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