The history of war-atrocity snapshots did not start with the Abu Ghraib screen-savers from hell. After all, photography itself came into being…
The press tells us that our “thrilled” President was “conservative” or “carefully guarded,” or expressed “cautious optimism” in responding to the death…
First news stories about the My Lai massacre (picked up from an army publicity release), March 1968: The New York Times labeled…
In recent months, among other uproars and scandals, Americans learned that the Defense Department has been collecting intelligence on and tracking domestic…
After five months of confusion, bickering, dickering, dithering, and strong-arm tactics from Zalmay Khalilzad, our ambassador to Iraq and various high American…
Recently, a number — one billion — in the New York Times stopped me in my tracks. According to a report commissioned…
“We must perhaps reluctantly accept that we have to help this region become a normal region, the way we helped Europe and…
It’s the perfect day for a march. Sunny, crisp, clear, spring-like. The sort of day that just gives you hope for no…
You can count on one thing. All over Washington, Republicans are at least as capable as I am of watching and interpreting…
It didn’t take long after the invasion of Iraq began in March 2003 for one of the radioactive words of the Vietnam…
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