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  • 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

  • Bush's night of the long knives

    The fall of Powell and the rise of Rice reveal the true face of this strange, Soviet administration, where bureaucratic fear and blind loyalty reign supreme.
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 17, 2004

  • The good soldier takes his leave

    Policy experts and former U.S. diplomats weigh in on Colin Powell's resignation.
    Compiled by Jeff Horwitz November 16, 2004

  • Dear Anonymous

    Douglas J. Feith, undersecretary of defense, responds to the Salon article by Anonymous, "The State Department's Extreme Makeover."
    November 6, 2004

  • "I love you, Security Mom"

    A U.S. diplomat who quit his job over Iraq urges mothers to resist the Bush administration's fear-mongering.
    By John Brady Kiesling October 7, 2004

  • The State Department's extreme makeover

    A veteran Foreign Service officer warns that when Colin Powell departs in a second Bush term, America will lose its last bulwark against the radical ideologues who are planning more Iraqs.
    By Anonymous October 4, 2004

  • Persecuted for their faith -- and ignored by the U.S.

    If Bush truly believes religion is the "first freedom of the human soul," why isn't his administration pressuring countries that persecute people for their beliefs?
    By Judd Legum August 4, 2004

  • I accuse

    Joseph Wilson, author of "The Politics of Truth," talks about his prime suspect in the White House smear campaign against him and his wife.
    By Joe Conason May 3, 2004

  • From heroes to targets

    The U.S. occupation of Iraq has turned into a daily debacle, say experts, because the Washington ideologues who planned the war were living in a fantasy.
    By Michelle Goldberg July 18, 2003

  • Rumsfeld's personal spy ring

    The defense secretary couldn't count on the CIA or the State Department to provide a pretext for war in Iraq. So he created a new agency that would tell him what he wanted to hear.
    By Eric Boehlert July 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

  • Joe Conason's Journal

    Now Rumsfeld has Newt Gingrich railing against the State Department. It's time for Powell to resign.
    April 22, 2003

  • The end of civilization

    The sacking of Iraq's museums is like a "lobotomy" of an entire culture, say art experts. And they warned the Pentagon repeatedly of this potential catastrophe months before the war.
    By Louise Witt April 17, 2003

  • The war over the peace

    The Pentagon, the State Department and the U.N. are fighting over who controls postwar Iraq. It's a battle that could be more critical than the military campaign.
    By Michelle Goldberg April 14, 2003

  • Rebuilding Iraq

    American officials are squabbling over how to put post-Saddam Iraq back together again. The fate of the entire region may rest on whether they get it right.
    By Laura Miller April 2, 2003

  • Iran's leading filmmaker denied U.S. visa

    Director Abbas Kiarostami, one of international cinema's biggest names, is blocked from attending the New York Film Festival and speaking at Harvard.
    By Andrew O'Hehir September 27, 2002

  • Bush stonewalls release of family-planning study

    A State Department team investigated oft-refuted charges raised by a far-right group that a U.N. family-planning agency abetted forced abortions in China. But Bush won't release the study -- or $34 million in aid.
    By Michelle Goldberg July 11, 2002

  • Yes to the Bible, no to the treaty

    Worldwide, 169 countries have signed a treaty to ban forced marriage and mandate equal access to education for women. Now Christian-right allies of President Bush call it a threat to Mother's Day.
    By Michelle Goldberg June 22, 2002

  • Bush's hatchet man in the State Department

    While Colin Powell tries to present a kinder, gentler America to the world, his hard-line underling John Bolton is pushing an America-über-alles doctrine -- and winning.
    By Ian Williams May 10, 2002

  • The return of Colin Powell?

    Ridiculed as the Bush administration's "odd man out" on the eve of the terror attacks, he has neutralized the hawks -- for now.
    By Ben Barber October 4, 2001

  • The Colin Powell difference

    For Foreign Service veterans, the new secretary of state's openness is a welcome change from Madeleine Albright's snobbery.
    By Ben Barber May 19, 2001

  • Panama wants to stay out of the drug war

    Fearful of walking in the footsteps of Thailand during the Vietnam War, officials in Panama want to stay out of the U.S. offensive in Colombia.
    By Mark Schapiro August 30, 2000

  • The survivor

    The reason nothing seems to work in getting rid of Slobodan Milosevic is that the entire post-communist Serbian system remains geared toward authoritarian abuse.
    By Laura Rozen November 5, 1999

  • The end of a nightmare

    After her husband was killed in Chile's bloody coup, Joyce Horman thought the only justice would come from telling her story. Now she has reason to hope those responsible will be forced to face the truth.
    By Itay Hod October 19, 1999
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