Vietnam War

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  • 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 girl in the photo

    A napalmed 9-year-old became a heartbreaking symbol of the Vietnam War -- now a journalist tells her story.
    By Louise Steinman August 3, 2000

  • "Windchill Summer" by Norris Church Mailer

    The Vietnam War comes home to Arkansas in a Nancy Drew novel for adults.
    By Karen Houppert June 19, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Readers reflect on the legacy of Vietnam Plus: Can Ritalin be lethal? Darva Conger should keep her clothes on.
    May 2, 2000

  • The Vietnam debacle

    The revisionists who believe that the war was just -- and winnable -- are rewriting a history they don't understand.
    By Stanley Karnow April 27, 2000

  • What did we learn from Vietnam?

    Bobbie Ann Mason, Michael Lind, Philip Caputo, Jonathan Schell and others talk about how the war changed the U.S., and the world.
    By Fiona Morgan and Daryl Lindsey April 24, 2000

  • Seymour Hersh

    The man who broke the story of Vietnam's My Lai massacre is still the hardest-working muckraker in the journalism business.
    By David Rubien January 18, 2000

  • Take-home test

    Gov. Bush says he has been reading a biography of former Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Here's a reading comprehension exam for the GOP front-runner.
    By David Corn December 13, 1999

  • An unnecessary crock: Michael Lind's "Vietnam: The Necessary War"

    For some thinkers, that ol' international communist conspiracy will never die.
    By Judith Coburn November 24, 1999

  • Unarmed and under fire: An oral history of female Vietnam vets

    "All we had was prayer. And I did a lot of that."
    By Austin Bunn November 11, 1999

  • "Three Kings"

    The stylish, almost hallucinatory war movie promotes director David O. Russell from indie grunt to Hollywood sharpshooter.
    By Andrew O'Hehir October 1, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Why the Mumia case is a watershed (or a waste of time); Anne Lamott is wrong on Vietnam; the Web helps racists find friends.
    Letters to the Editor July 16, 1999

  • The war at home

    While Vietnamese in California battle over Ho Chi Minh's photo, and legacy, a younger generation on both sides of the Pacific manages to live in two worlds.
    By Andrew Lam March 4, 1999

  • Vets declare "war" on CNN

    Angered by CNN's discredited story about sarin gas used on defectors in Laos, U.S. veterans have declared a virtual war against any and all media 'enemies' involved in the episode.
    By Francis Pisani July 24, 1998

  • The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

    This is the 30th anniversary of a series of tumultuous events that shaped a generation. To understand the activists of the '60s, you have to revisit 1968 and consider what it was like to those who lived through it.
    By Stephen Talbot July 22, 1998
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