Vietnam

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  • Destination: Vietnam

    Untangle this jungly nation with the best histories of its war-torn past, a terrifying novel about a North Vietnamese soldier, and an affecting memoir of contemporary Hanoi.
    By Tom Bissell June 15, 2006

  • Attacking Iran: Are they nuts?

    If the U.S. attacked Iran, the consequences would be catastrophic -- including a possible American retreat under fire in Iraq.
    By Joe Conason April 21, 2006

  • "I've been in combat too long"

    Former Sen. Max Cleland blasts the "total folly" of Iraq -- and says he still hasn't gotten over the GOP smears that ended his political career.
    By Bill Katovsky April 3, 2006

  • Only the GOP can save us

    It's time for honorable Republicans to save us all from George W. Bush, a man who does not represent the best that is our country.
    By Garrison Keillor March 15, 2006

  • The ominous truth about Iraq

    "Ghost soldiers," a new breed of better-trained terrorists, and an insurgent support network nearly a half million strong: These are the faces of America's increasingly dire Iraq problem.
    By Mark Follman June 22, 2005

  • Summer of discontent

    From Social Security to the war, the polls continue to plunge on President Bush and the Republican-led Congress.
    By Mark Follman June 17, 2005

  • Putting Deep Throat in perspective

    Leading media lights Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbaugh explain that Nixon's enemies were responsible for losing the Vietnam War, and for genocide in Cambodia.
    By Mark Follman June 2, 2005

  • Unofficially worried about a quagmire

    Why U.S. troops may not be headed for home any time soon.
    By Mark Follman April 25, 2005

  • The Associated Press "insurgency"

    Conservative bloggers tar an AP photojournalist with complicity in Sunday's street execution in Baghdad -- another cheap shot at the "left-wing" media.
    By Mark Follman December 22, 2004

  • Why the U.S. must withdraw from Iraq

    Vietnam proved that offensive occupations are doomed. In his arrogance, Bush is repeating the same blunder.
    By Peter Dale Scott October 28, 2004

  • They knew how to win. Does John Kerry?

    The Bush machine is running one of the dirtiest -- and most effective -- campaigns in modern history. The Democrats need to get back in the fight.
    By Eric Boehlert September 1, 2004

  • "I'm very ashamed"

    The former Texas official who got George Bush into the National Guard apologizes for making sure that young men with important "family names" did not have to fight in Vietnam.
    By Jeff Horwitz August 27, 2004

  • "That flag is our flag"

    Veterans, led by war heroes Wesley Clark and Max Cleland, charge out of the trenches in Boston for John Kerry.
    By Tim Grieve July 26, 2004

  • John Kerry, the man who uncovered Iran-Contra

    The Democratic nominee has a long record of fearlessly exposing abuses of power -- including launching the investigation that unraveled the worst scandal since Watergate.
    By Sidney Blumenthal July 22, 2004

  • Aiming for John Kerry's Purple Heart

    How low will the Swift Boat Veterans sink to defame the presidential candidate's Vietnam record?
    By Joe Conason July 16, 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

  • The GOP's not-so-impartial hit man

    Desperate to denigrate John Kerry's war record, Republicans have trotted out a "nonpartisan" Navy Vietnam vet -- who was a protege of Nixon dirty trickster Charles Colson and whose law firm is closely tied to the Bush White House.
    By Joe Conason April 23, 2004

  • Letters

    A Vietnam vet warns Bush backers are "playing a dangerous, self-destructive game" by trashing John Kerry's Purple Heart. Plus: Readers respond to P.W. Singer's two-part story, "Outsourcing the War."
    April 22, 2004

  • John Kerry: The video game

    In "Battlefield Vietnam," a new version of one of the most popular games in the U.S., you too can try to win a Silver Star saving your buddies in the jungle.
    By Wagner James Au April 13, 2004

  • Joe Conason

    Even worse than Ann Coulter's smearing of decorated war veteran Max Cleland last week are the fawning right-wingers now trumpeting her lies.
    By Joe Conason February 21, 2004

  • Letters

    Readers respond to "Kerry vs. the Chicken Hawks," by Robert Poe, and "Howard's End," by Joan Walsh.
    February 20, 2004

  • The Salon Interview: Daniel Ellsberg

    Like John Kerry, he returned from the Vietnam War to become one of its most famous opponents. Now the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers blasts the Bush camp's "obscene" attack on Kerry's patriotism.
    By David Talbot February 19, 2004

  • Right Hook

    Limbaugh says Americans don't care about Bush's National Guard problem because they love him; Lowry says Kerry smeared Vietnam vets, Coulter shrieks that he stalks lonely heiresses. Plus: Dissenting thoughts on same-sex marriage.
    By Mark Follman February 18, 2004

  • The lies that bind

    If a democratic Iraq was the goal all along, why didn't Wolfowitz and Bush tell the American people before they sacrificed their sons and daughters?
    By Robert Scheer February 4, 2004
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