January 29, 2005
The Coming Wars
ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
What the Pentagon can now do in secret.
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December 09, 2004
November 15, 2004
The cost of ideas
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
It is becoming ever more apparent that the patent system isn’t working
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Posted by cds at 02:02 PM
October 16, 2004
October 14, 2004
October 04, 2004
October 02, 2004
September 27, 2004
Poll Position
Is the Justice Department poised to stop voter fraud—or to keep voters from voting?
Posted by cds at 04:28 PM
September 13, 2004
September 09, 2004
Stung!
A swarm of new media stories on young George W. Bush’s dereliction of duty pops his heroic-leadership bubble.
Posted by cds at 11:10 AM
September 08, 2004
August 27, 2004
The Unpolitical Animal
A CRITIC AT LARGE
How political science understands voters.
Posted by cds at 02:22 PM
August 21, 2004
August 06, 2004
August 03, 2004
They Knew …
Despite the whitewash, we now know that the Bush administration was warned before the war that its Iraq claims were weak
Posted by cds at 12:41 PM
July 28, 2004
July 22, 2004
My Beef With Big Media
How government protects big media—and shuts out upstarts like me.
Posted by cds at 04:17 PM
The Kerry I Know
So he’s not Mr. Charisma. But he has courage, judgment, and intellect. Imagine that!
Posted by cds at 12:51 PM
July 08, 2004
June 29, 2004
June 25, 2004
“Democracy itself is in grave danger”
Former Vice President Al Gore charges that the Bush administration’s use of executive power goes beyond the pale. America’s greatest challenge today, he argues, “is not terrorism but how we react to terrorism.”
Posted by cds at 06:06 PM
The Salon Interview: Bill Clinton
The former president blasts the Bush-Cheney rush to war, explains why Gore lost in 2000 and tells how Kerry can win in 2004.
Posted by cds at 11:33 AM
June 21, 2004
Plan B
ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
As June 30th approaches, Israel looks to the Kurds.
Posted by cds at 02:21 PM
June 15, 2004
“A temporary coup”
Author Thomas Powers says the White House’s corruption of intelligence has caused the greatest foreign policy catastrophe in modern U.S. history—and sparked a civil war with the nation’s intel agencies.
Posted by cds at 11:16 AM
Reagan porn
The “liberal media’s” unprecedented 24/7 gushing over a controversial and divisive president caps a quarter-century of fawning.
Posted by cds at 11:16 AM
June 07, 2004
June 02, 2004
Kerry Faces the World
What would a John Kerry foreign policy look like? In some ways a lot like one the current President’s father could endorse
Posted by cds at 09:53 AM
May 31, 2004
The Manipulator
A REPORTER AT LARGE
Ahmad Chalabi pushed a tainted case for war. Can he survive the occupation?
Posted by cds at 12:41 PM
May 28, 2004
History’s Fools
POLITICS & PROSE
In the wake of Iraq, the term “neo-conservative” may come to mean “dangerous innocence about world realities”
Posted by cds at 12:36 AM
May 27, 2004
Bill Moyers
The seventy-year-old journalist—whose new collection of speeches and essays arrives in bookstores this month—on why he’s parting ways with pbs, what it was like to work for lbj, and whether objectivity is all it’s cracked up to be.
Posted by cds at 05:28 PM
The Hersh Alternative
He’s spent a lifetime butting heads with the official version of reality. What does a career like Seymour Hersh’s say about Washington—and about journalism itself?
Posted by cds at 01:51 PM
May 18, 2004
Locked in Abu Ghraib
WAR STORIES
The prison scandal keeps getting worse for the Bush administration.
Posted by cds at 02:06 AM
May 16, 2004
The Gray Zone
ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib.
Posted by cds at 04:26 PM
May 10, 2004
Chain of Command
ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
How the Department of Defense mishandled the disaster at Abu Ghraib.
Posted by cds at 02:47 PM
May 04, 2004
How Ahmed Chalabi conned the neocons
The hawks who launched the Iraq war believed the deal-making exile when he promised to build a secular democracy with close ties to Israel. Now the Israel deal is dead, he’s cozying up to Iran—and his patrons look like they’re on the way out. A Salon exclusive.
Posted by cds at 12:53 PM
May 03, 2004
Torture at Abu Ghraib
ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
American soldiers brutalized Iraqis. How far up does the responsibility go?
Posted by cds at 12:12 PM
April 28, 2004
April 25, 2004
April 18, 2004
April 15, 2004
The Out-of-Towner
WAR STORIES
While Bush vacationed, 9/11 warnings went unheard.
Posted by cds at 12:39 AM
April 14, 2004
Trust, Don’t Verify
BALLOT BOX
Bush’s incredible definition of credibility.
Posted by cds at 02:31 PM
April 13, 2004
April 07, 2004
Bush’s Afghanistan Problem
Q & A
Seymour Hersh discusses warlords, drug runners, and the hunt for Al Qaeda
Posted by cds at 01:20 PM
The Other War
ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
Why Bush’s Afghanistan problem won’t go away.
Posted by cds at 01:20 PM
April 03, 2004
April 02, 2004
There Goes the Neighborhood
Why home prices are about to plummet—and take the recovery with them.
Posted by cds at 02:05 PM
March 17, 2004
March 10, 2004
March 08, 2004
Gore Sheds His Centrist Suit for a Decidedly Populist One
THE RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Written off by some, the 2000 Democratic nominee is ramping up the anti-Bush rhetoric, and people are taking note.
Posted by cds at 03:46 PM
March 07, 2004
Emerging Democrats
In 2000 America was a 50:50 nation. But the long-term economic and cultural trends favour the Democrats.
Posted by cds at 06:42 PM
March 06, 2004
March 05, 2004
March 04, 2004
The Deal
ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
Why is Washington going easy on Pakistan’s nuclear black marketers?
Posted by cds at 05:19 PM
February 18, 2004
Wake-Up Time
Yes, Bush has bullied the national media. But are they really powerless? Only if they play along. Herewith, five suggestions for how the Fourth Estate can stop the charade.
Posted by cds at 01:54 AM
February 11, 2004
February 08, 2004
February 07, 2004
February 02, 2004
How Kerry could beat Bush
To close the sale with the public, the Democratic front-runner should can the populist rhetoric and talk to Americans about an “opportunity society.”
Posted by cds at 02:04 AM
January 31, 2004
January 30, 2004
January 26, 2004
Power Rangers
A CRITIC AT LARGE
Did the Bush Administration create a new American empire—or weaken the old one?
Posted by cds at 04:33 AM
January 23, 2004
Fortress Bush
ANNALS OF COMMUNICATIONS
How the White House keeps the press under control.
Posted by cds at 06:35 PM
January 21, 2004
Bush loses his aura of invincibility
In his State of the Union address, the president posed once again as the indomitable wartime leader—but it didn’t play as well this time.
Posted by cds at 12:41 PM
January 19, 2004
The Myth of the Democratic Establishment
Howard Dean’s grassroots rebellion against the power that isn’t.
Posted by cds at 01:21 PM
January 13, 2004
The media vs. Howard Dean
Democrats haven’t voted yet, but reporters have got the story: The former Vermont governor is angry, gaffe-prone and unelectable. How do they know? Republicans, and anonymous Democrats, told them so.
Posted by cds at 05:12 PM
December 16, 2003
November 29, 2003
War After The War
LETTER FROM BAGHDAD
What Washington doesn’t see in Iraq.
Posted by cds at 01:36 PM
November 21, 2003
“The president ought to be ashamed”
Former Sen. Max Cleland blasts Bush’s “Nixonian” stonewalling of the 9/11 commission, his “lies” about Iraq, and his flight-suit photo op on the uss Lincoln after “hiding out” during Vietnam.
Posted by cds at 04:21 PM
November 20, 2003
November 19, 2003
Case Open
PRESS BOX
Why is the press avoiding the Weekly Standard’s intelligence scoop?
Posted by cds at 01:47 PM
November 17, 2003
“Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President”
As White House denials grow insistent, some of the sharpest thinkers of the Vietnam generation see stark parallels with the war in Iraq.
Posted by cds at 05:32 PM
November 16, 2003
November 15, 2003
Occupational Hazards
THE BIG IDEA
How the Pentagon forgot about running Iraq.
Posted by cds at 01:31 PM
November 13, 2003
‘We could lose this situation’
cia says insurgents now 50,000 strong; Crisis talks over transfer of power
Posted by cds at 10:17 PM
Freedom and Security
Former Vice President Al Gore says the Bush administration’s assault on civil liberties and its invasion of Iraq threaten American freedom and security like never before.
Posted by cds at 10:16 PM
November 07, 2003
The case of the last-minute offer
Did a war-obsessed Bush administration ignore urgent peace feelers from Saddam’s regime?
Posted by cds at 01:24 AM
November 05, 2003
America’s Virtual Empire
U.S. soldiers are great warriors, but unwilling imperial guards. If we want to secure our interests, we must draw on other sources of power.
Posted by cds at 11:36 AM
November 04, 2003
Clark blasts the poseur in chief
Wesley Clark says Bush “pranced around in a flight suit” with no long-term strategy for Iraq—and as U.S. soldiers die daily, there’s still no plan.
Posted by cds at 08:43 PM
November 03, 2003
The Clinton Formula
Forget the left-center divide—it’s not 1992 anymore. Defend government. Fight smarter. Smile. Win
Posted by cds at 12:33 AM
November 02, 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.
Posted by cds at 10:55 PM
November 01, 2003
Bush’s other war
US intelligence is being scapegoated for getting it right on Iraq
Posted by cds at 07:43 PM
October 31, 2003
A Must-Read Speech
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s remarks from the “New American Strategies for Security and Peace” conference
Posted by cds at 06:09 PM
Fox News: The inside story
A former Fox producer describes the ways—both subtle and blunt—that top executives impose a right-wing ideology on the newsroom.
Posted by cds at 03:13 PM
October 27, 2003
October 24, 2003
Rumsfeld’s Pentagon Papers
WAR STORIES
His leaked memo is the most astonishing document of this war so far.
Posted by cds at 11:15 AM
October 23, 2003
The general and his ground troops
Howard Dean is not the only Democratic candidate who has inspired an army
Posted by cds at 02:00 PM
October 21, 2003
October 20, 2003
The Stovepipe
ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
How conflicts between the Bush Administration and the intelligence community marred the reporting on Iraq’s weapons.
Posted by cds at 02:51 PM
October 18, 2003
October 16, 2003
Framing the Dems
How conservatives control political debate and how progressives can take it back
Posted by cds at 09:18 PM
United States: the Strangelove doctrine
Mention nuclear proliferation and people think of North Korea or Iran: But what about the United States? The Bush administration plans to use nuclear weapons even against countries without them. It also intends to enrich its massive arsenal with new high-precision bombs.
Posted by cds at 05:11 PM
October 14, 2003
When big media gets bigger
“The effort to reverse the FCC is dead in the water, sinking the democratic process with it.”
Posted by cds at 09:52 PM
October 13, 2003
October 09, 2003
“A true American hero”
Joseph Wilson stood up to Saddam—then to the Bush administration. The man who exposed the president’s bogus uranium claim talks about why he spoke out and the White House’s ugly “revenge” against him and his wife.
Posted by cds at 11:22 PM
October 08, 2003
The moviegoing voter
Millions chose Arnold Schwarzenegger in the hopes of finding a happy ending for California’s woes. But I won’t be sleeping any better.
Posted by cds at 09:02 PM
September 16, 2003
April 07, 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.
Posted by cds at 02:34 PM