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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
March 4, 2008
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"Age of Bronze," a masterly graphic novel series about the Trojan War, is fit for the gods.
By Douglas Wolk
February 21, 2008
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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
February 15, 2008
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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
February 11, 2008
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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
December 20, 2007
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A history of world trade over the last millennium in one sentence.
By Andrew Leonard
December 14, 2007
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Jonathan Schell: "Everybody who has ever marched against nuclear weapons should dust off their boots and get back in the fray."
By Tom Engelhardt
December 5, 2007
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At a beauty pageant held for Angola's land mine victims, the prize is a prosthetic leg.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
November 19, 2007
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Protesters confront Condoleezza Rice and are dragged away.
October 24, 2007
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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
October 24, 2007
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A haunting, minimalist portrait of modern warfare by former soldier Matthew Eck.
By Stephen Elliott
October 22, 2007
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A new transcript reveals the president, on the brink of the Iraq invasion, full of faith, calm and unyielding optimism.
By Mark Danner
October 18, 2007
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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
October 17, 2007
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Gore is rewarded for his epic efforts to focus attention on the perils of climate change.
By Carl Pope
October 11, 2007
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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.
By Joan Walsh
October 2, 2007
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A congressional memo looks into the private security contractor's activities in Iraq, the State Department's responses and taxpayer costs.
October 2, 2007
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The scale of Bush's strategic miscalculation in Iraq is striking, emboldening Iran to extend its influence in the Middle East.
By Peter Galbraith
September 24, 2007
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Best known for his tales of losers, thieves and addicts, Denis Johnson takes on the Vietnam War in his daring new novel, "Tree of Smoke."
By Laura Miller
September 17, 2007
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Civil war, mass emigration, the collapse of rural agriculture... Guess what, there's a silver lining
By Andrew Leonard
September 6, 2007
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The president's appeals to democracy, liberty and security to justify the carnage in Iraq recall Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian conquest.
By Juan Cole
August 30, 2007
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Do we really need to spend more than a trillion dollars a year to defeat small groups of terrorist fanatics?
By Robert Dreyfuss
June 15, 2007
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The soldier shares her humble story with Glamour magazine.
By Carol Lloyd
June 7, 2007
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Democratic senators ask why the government failed to respond to 2004 warning about hospital conditions.
By Mark Benjamin
April 13, 2007
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Twenty-five years ago this band of brothers was sent to fight an unwinnable war, only to be deserted by their government.
By Jens Glüsing
April 4, 2007
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Welcome home ... to hell.
By David Puner
March 6, 2007