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  • The new Pentagon Paper

    A scathing top-level report, intended for internal consumption, says that Bush's "war on terrorism" is an unmitigated disaster. Of course, the administration is ignoring it.
    By Sidney Blumenthal December 2, 2004

  • Right Hook

    Terrorism expert says Bush's reelection gave bin Laden a "kosher stamp from the Islamic world" to use nukes on U.S. -- and a major attack is "inevitable." Plus: A karate champion says CIA must play dirty.
    By Mark Follman December 1, 2004

  • Right Hook

    Rush Limbaugh blames NBA brawl on hip-hop culture, calls Detroit "New Fallujah," while a black minister dubs black celebrities "anti-American." Plus: Heritage analyst applauds Porter Goss' bloodletting at the CIA.
    By Mark Follman November 24, 2004

  • Right Hook

    Conservatives cheer Condi, scratch their heads over Colin, and see bright days ahead for Bush's faith-based team. Plus: Rich Lowry cackles with glee over the prospect of more blacks voting Republican.
    By Mark Follman November 17, 2004

  • First buddy

    Condi Rice has rarely used her close relationship with Bush to offer dissent or hold back administration hard-liners. That doesn't bode well for her tenure at State.
    By Dennis Jett November 17, 2004

  • The Pentagon doesn't want you to vote overseas

    A Web site maintained by the Department of Defense is blocking access to non-military Americans. Could it be worried that expatriates are leaning toward Kerry?
    By Farhad Manjoo September 21, 2004

  • What a shock!

    The Pentagon high command clears the Pentagon high command of any wrongdoing in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal.
    By James P. Pinkerton August 27, 2004

  • The case of the missing Bush documents

    Records covering the president's crucial missing months in the Texas Air National Guard were "accidentally" destroyed. But he could still clear his name if he chose to.
    By James C. Moore July 15, 2004

  • "A temporary coup"

    Author Thomas Powers says the White House's corruption of intelligence has caused the greatest foreign policy catastrophe in modern U.S. history -- and sparked a civil war with the nation's intel agencies.
    By Mark Follman June 14, 2004

  • Rush's forced conscripts

    American Forces Radio fires a daily barrage of Rush Limbaugh at its million uniformed listeners. So why are liberals kept off the military's airwaves?
    By Eric Boehlert May 26, 2004

  • Smiting the infidels

    Gen. Boykin, the Bible-thumping crank who said Bush "was appointed by God," is at the center of the Abu Ghraib scandal.
    By Sidney Blumenthal May 20, 2004

  • The imperial Pentagon

    Rumsfeld and his minions are treating Congress as if it's on a need-to-know basis about Iraq -- from the number of private contractors there to how taxpayers' money is being spent to our military strategy.
    By Robert Schlesinger May 20, 2004

  • Lack of protection

    Long before Abu Ghraib, senior officers warned that Bush appointees in the Pentagon were undermining prisoner safeguards.
    By Joe Conason May 7, 2004

  • At the breaking point

    The Bush administration's unrealistic war planning has increased the dangers facing the men and women on the ground in Iraq.
    By Robert Schlesinger April 29, 2004

  • Can the U.S. avoid a worst-case scenario in Iraq?

    Perhaps -- by increasing troop strength and raising taxes. An interview with "Dark Victory" author Jeffrey Record.
    By Robert Schlesinger April 29, 2004

  • Bush's war -- against Richard Clarke

    The White House's furious response to Richard Clarke only underscores the truth of his testimony.
    By Sidney Blumenthal March 25, 2004

  • The new Pentagon papers

    A high-ranking military officer reveals how Defense Department extremists suppressed information and twisted the truth to drive the country to war.
    By Karen Kwiatkowski March 10, 2004

  • Right Hook

    David Frum says Bush "surrendered to the radicals" by hiding behind security in London; Gen. Franks predicts another terror attack could dissolve U.S. Constitution; Coulter bashes "pandering" Dems who just discovered their Jewishness.
    By Mark Follman November 26, 2003

  • Selling Pvt. Lynch

    From the White House to Random House, the plucky ex-POW has been badly used. But even as the right turned on her, she handled her week in the spotlight like a hero.
    By Eric Boehlert November 15, 2003

  • More war on the cheap

    Using Marines as peacekeepers and mobilizing new Reserve troops spotlights the military's holes in Iraq -- as well as the White House's zeal to bring soldiers home in an election year.
    By Eric Boehlert November 7, 2003

  • The case of the last-minute offer

    Did a war-obsessed Bush administration ignore urgent peace feelers from Saddam's regime?
    By Gary Kamiya November 7, 2003

  • Clare Short: The U.S. needs the world's help -- now

    The former British cabinet member blasts the "arrogant" Pentagon for its bungled postwar planning and calls Tony Blair's decision to prop up Bush's war "tragic."
    By Michelle Goldberg October 9, 2003

  • Joe Conason's Journal

    Remember Bush's promise never to undertake a foreign intervention without an exit strategy? That boast isn't holding up so well anymore.
    September 3, 2003

  • Saving Pvt. Lynch: The made-for-TV movie

    It was a story that thrilled all America. Too bad it wasn't true.
    By Barry Lando May 16, 2003

  • Blaming the victim

    Newt Gingrich came back from the political grave to say the State Department is broken. He should know. He helped break it.
    By Lee Feinstein May 1, 2003
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