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On armies, war and an aging Israel
As the country turns 60, a novelist reconsiders Zionism amid revealing encounters with the Israeli military.
By Arnon Grunberg May 15, 2008
Guns and water coolers in Iraq
U.S. soldiers drink water, lots of it, in scorching hot Baghdad. Plus, patrolling the streets with a less than disciplined Iraqi army squad.
By Anna Badkhen May 9, 2008
Helicopter travel in Iraq
Military travel is grueling, especially for a soldier with a hole in his face from a sniper bullet who's trying to get back home to Missouri.
By Anna Badkhen May 7, 2008
Writing through the rubble
While clouds of destruction hang over Iraq, a set of new books sheds light on how America bungled the war, and on the hope that lingers in small Iraqi towns.
By Salon staff Mar 21, 2008
The "War and Peace" of "Space Invaders"
Please, I beg of you -- don't press that button! You have no idea of the heartbreak you will wreak
Andrew Leonard Mar 20, 2008
Five years and counting
The Iraq war and its toll on women, here and over there.
Lynn Harris Mar 19, 2008
Guerrillas rise up in Nazi-occupied Britain
A haunting new alternative history imagines an invading German army living alongside the natives in rural Wales.
By Laura Miller Mar 18, 2008
A 1930s history lesson
Protectionism on the rise, bickering about exchange rates, the debilitating costs of war -- where have we heard this story before?
Andrew Leonard Mar 17, 2008
AC-130 airstrike
Footage of an attack that destroyed an Iraqi apartment complex.
Mar 13, 2008
How the press failed on Iraq
A hard look back at the past five years -- with all its death and destruction and missteps -- reveals that the American media has been sleepwalking through the war.
By Greg Mitchell Mar 11, 2008
The cold price of hot blood
A devastating new book reveals that Iraq will cost the U.S. at least $3 trillion. Will Americans check their pocketbooks the next time a president tries to sell them on a cheap, glorious war?
By Gary Kamiya Mar 4, 2008
War goes graphic
"Age of Bronze," a masterly graphic novel series about the Trojan War, is fit for the gods.
By Douglas Wolk Feb 21, 2008
Killing "Bubba" from the skies
Inside a secret high-tech control center the U.S. Air Force targets enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan. But can they bomb them legally, and without killing innocents? A Salon exclusive.
By Mark Benjamin Feb 15, 2008
In the military we trust
Progressives who want to disarm U.S. militarism must first understand the nation's faith in the military -- one of our least elitist, most diverse institutions.
By William J. Astore Feb 11, 2008
The fallout for Bush on Iran
Former U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix assesses the latest U.S. intelligence and whether Bush could still launch a military strike.
By André Anwar Dec 20, 2007
War and peace and trade
A history of world trade over the last millennium in one sentence.
Andrew Leonard Dec 14, 2007
The fate of the Earth, the Bush years
Jonathan Schell: "Everybody who has ever marched against nuclear weapons should dust off their boots and get back in the fray."
By Tom Engelhardt Dec 5, 2007
Miss Landmine 2008
At a beauty pageant held for Angola's land mine victims, the prize is a prosthetic leg.
Tracy Clark-Flory Nov 19, 2007
War Room: Rice gets pinked
Protesters confront Condoleezza Rice and are dragged away.
Oct 24, 2007
Another Iraq invasion?
Political tensions boil in Turkey as thousands call for war against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, and the White House scrambles to stop it.
By Maximilian Popp Oct 24, 2007
How hard is it to write honestly about war?
A haunting, minimalist portrait of modern warfare by former soldier Matthew Eck.
By Stephen Elliott Oct 22, 2007
Bush "at peace" waging war
A new transcript reveals the president, on the brink of the Iraq invasion, full of faith, calm and unyielding optimism.
By Mark Danner Oct 18, 2007
Sunday morning coming down
I'm an old, tired Democrat, sick of this infernal war, but here in an old brownstone church there is a moment of separation from all the griefs of this world.
By Garrison Keillor Oct 17, 2007
Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Gore is rewarded for his epic efforts to focus attention on the perils of climate change.
By Carl Pope Oct 11, 2007
Blackwater and "Magic"
On a day when Republicans are embracing mercenaries who kill civilians as "our team," Bruce Springsteen releases another great album, and that's one for our team.
Joan Walsh Oct 2, 2007
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