• "The Fog of War"

    Errol Morris tries to pin down Vietnam War chess-master Robert McNamara, and the results are fascinating -- also troubling, deeply confusing and way too artistically precious.
    By Charles Taylor December 19, 2003

  • Letter from an Army vet

    A disabled Vietnam-era vet visits a Minneapolis V.A. hospital and discovers that many fellow vets oppose the Bush administration's war in Iraq.
    December 5, 2003

  • Letters

    Readers respond to "'Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President'," by Jessica Kowal, and "Why the Antiwar Left Must Confront Terrorism," by Mark Follman.
    November 19, 2003

  • Right Hook

    The New York Post dismisses the rising U.S. body count; Oliver North says let the CIA play dirty. Plus: David Brooks says kill the evil scum; Canadian pundit Barbara Amiel gushes over Bush's "stern cowboy looks."
    By Mark Follman November 5, 2003

  • Oiling up the draft machine?

    The Pentagon is quietly moving to fill draft board vacancies nationwide. While officials say there's no cause to worry, some experts aren't so sure.
    By Dave Lindorff November 3, 2003

  • Joe Conason's Journal

    Predictably, pro-war pundits are hastening to the president's rescue. But beneath the usual bluster can be heard a bleat of fear.
    July 21, 2003

  • The Salon Interview: Bill Moyers

    The conscience of American journalism speaks his mind about Bush, LBJ, Iraq, Vietnam, the triumph of America's global power and the withering of its democracy.
    By Andrew O'Hehir April 7, 2003

  • "A splendid little war"

    Forget WWII or Vietnam. The real comparison for an invasion of Iraq is the Spanish-American War, when an aimless U.S. presidency and a lazy media looked for redemption.
    By Neal Gabler February 21, 2003

  • Across the great divide

    I'm a baby boomer, but I'm not burned out. And I wanted to find out how the next generation is keeping the flame alive. My first stop: The University of Virginia.
    By Cary Tennis December 19, 2002

  • Something for everyone

    From Burning Man and NASA's moon photos to James Bond posters and Marilyn Monroe, we recommend the best gift books for those hard-to-please people on your list.
    December 19, 2002

  • "I'm not sure which planet they live on"

    Hawks in the Bush administration may be making deadly miscalculations on Iraq, says Gen. Anthony Zinni, Bush's Middle East envoy.
    By Eric Boehlert October 17, 2002

  • The making of a hawk

    From Kuwait to Kosovo to Kabul, American firepower has been on the right side of history. The odyssey of a former dove.
    By David Talbot January 3, 2002

  • LBJ: The White (House) album

    Lyndon Johnson's secret tapes offer extraordinary insight into the sometimes ugly reality of running the USA -- and into a complex man's tortured soul.
    By Douglas Cruickshank November 29, 2001

  • Can we rebuild Afghanistan?

    There is no Marshall Plan for this tattered nation, and the lessons of trying to fix Cambodia, Bosnia and Somalia aren't inspiring.
    By Damien Cave October 11, 2001

  • David Halberstam on "Apocalypse Now"

    The Vietnam reporter and author of "The Best and the Brightest" says that Coppola's epic has only gotten better with time.
    By Jeff Stark August 3, 2001

  • What war?

    The death of Vietnam's most famous protest singer -- who was abused by authorities both North and South -- inspires historical amnesia.
    By Adam Miller August 3, 2001

  • Apocalypse forever

    A new version and 53 extra minutes of Francis Ford Coppola's often brilliant, maddeningly incoherent war horse only illuminate the film's shortcomings.
    By Allen Barra August 3, 2001

  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Monday, June 4, 2001
    By Joyce Millman June 4, 2001

  • Wanted

    If Henry Kissinger isn't guilty of war crimes, no one is. A Vietnam War whistleblower on Christopher Hitchens' case against the former secretary of state.
    By Fred Branfman May 18, 2001

  • Is it time for a Vietnam truth commission?

    Suppressed atrocities haunt victims, perpetrators and politics alike. That's why unshrouding the secret history of former Sen. Bob Kerrey and the Vietnam War is imperative.
    By Bruce Shapiro May 2, 2001

  • Not home for the holidays

    Coming of age in the kitchen of a Canadian commune.
    By Paulina Borsook November 21, 2000

  • "Ho Chi Minh" by William J. Duiker

    The Vietnamese revolutionary emerges as a patriot closer to Thomas Jefferson than to V.I. Lenin in this monumental new biography.
    By Stanley Kutler November 14, 2000

  • John McCain

    Faith of my Fathers
    By Biography | Random House Audio October 5, 2000

  • The traitor

    Forget the sketchy allegations of wife-beating. Anthony Summers' new book makes clear that Richard Nixon's real crimes were against his country.
    By Charles Taylor September 1, 2000

  • An eerie campaign silence

    Bush and Gore should tell us where they stand on the ugly $1.3 billion drug war offensive in Colombia that the next president will have to face.
    By Arianna Huffington September 1, 2000
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