Burning down the Log Cabin Assailing the "cabal of geniuses" who cooked up the gay marriage ban, one of the GOP's only openly gay leaders breaks with his party.
By Eric Boehlert [06/03/04]

The patriot Armed Services chairman John Warner is determined to get to the bottom of the Abu Ghraib scandal -- even if it costs George W. Bush the election.
By Mary Jacoby [06/02/04]

Abu Moses He was a Palestinian commando, and a clown and a cutup -- until one day he made a shattering discovery.
By D.N. Rosina [06/01/04]

"The truth has a force of its own" In a Salon interview, John Kerry talks about Iraq, his "personal" decision on a running mate and the "craven, petty, childish and destructive" politics of his opponents.
By Tim Grieve [05/28/04]

A presidential aura With the crowds growing, the campaign money flowing and the media swarming, John Kerry is looking more and more like the front-runner.
By Tim Grieve [05/29/04]

A man for all intrigues Iyad Allawi, the new choice to lead Iraq, isn't Ahmed Chalabi -- but that's about the only thing to commend this wily member of the old-boy, CIA-sponsored exile club.
By Andrew Cockburn [05/29/04]

The fake peace Hours after a deal was struck, armed Mahdi army forces are back in Najaf -- abetted by fresh volunteers.
By Phillip Robertson [05/28/04]

Documenting torture A farmer and peace activist from the American heartland talks about his frontline battle against human rights abuses in Iraq -- long before the world learned of Abu Ghraib.
By Jeff Horwitz [05/28/04]

Not fit to print How Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraq war lobby used New York Times reporter Judith Miller to make the case for invasion.
By James C. Moore [05/27/04]

Rush's forced conscripts American Forces Radio fires a daily barrage of Rush Limbaugh at its million uniformed listeners. So why are liberals kept off the military's airwaves?
By Eric Boehlert [05/26/04]

Marching off the cliff Free-falling in the polls, Bush stayed with the same tough-guy message. But Michael Lind, Karen Kwiatkowski, Ruy Teixeira and others say he landed with a splat, while AEI's Michael Rubin says the speech was "a good start."
Compiled by Mark Follman, Jeff Horwitz and Michal Keeley [05/25/04]

House divided GOP enforcer Tom DeLay and his former partner Dick Armey are locked in a nasty dispute over the future of the Republican Party.
By Mary Jacoby [05/24/04]

"Najaf is dying" A terrified Iraqi bookstore owner denounces the Mahdi Army as "barbarians" as Muqtada al-Sadr prepares for martyrdom at the hands of American troops.
By Phillip Robertson [05/22/04]

Ahmed Chalabi's failed coup The U.S. raids his home and headquarters in Iraq to foil his plot.
By Andrew Cockburn [05/20/04]

America's laziest fascist Infamous shock jock Michael Savage bombed in a bizarre, half-baked stage show this week, but his 6 million listeners just heard him call for the U.S. to murder millions of Arabs. Does the FCC care?
By Dave Gilson [05/20/04]

The imperial Pentagon Rumsfeld and his minions are treating Congress as if it's on a need-to-know basis about Iraq -- from the number of private contractors there to how taxpayers' money is being spent to our military strategy.
By Robert Schlesinger [05/20/04]

The prisoner-abuse scandal at home The stories sound familiar: Muslim prisoners beaten and sexually humiliated by American guards. But it happened in Brooklyn, not Baghdad.
By Michelle Goldberg [05/19/04]

How high does it go? The more we find out about what happened at Abu Ghraib, the less it looks like a case of renegade soldiers.
By Eric Boehlert [05/18/04]

Trust us Defending the administration's enemy-combatant policy, the Justice Department told the Supreme Court that the U.S. doesn't torture prisoners. Just hours later, the Abu Ghraib story broke. Did the U.S. intentionally mislead the court?
By Tim Grieve [05/17/04]

After the tanks The young Al-Mahdi Army soldiers said nothing as we drove past. The U.S. Army had just blasted their cemetery stronghold with Apaches, and they didn't care about anything.
By Phillip Robertson [05/15/04]

"The place is broken" CIA veteran Bob Baer says torture was forbidden when he worked for the agency. "Now contractors are sent out to torture people to death and then hide it."
By Mary Jacoby [05/12/04]

Breaking GOP ranks As more Republican senators sour on Rumsfeld's war, John McCain and Chuck Hagel may no longer be the party's lone men of conscience.
By Martin Sieff [05/12/04]

The private contractor-GOP gravy train From Blackwater to CACI, mercenary companies in Iraq have a warm and cozy relationship with the Republican politicians who are employing them.
By Robert Schlesinger [05/11/04]

The bulldozer stalls With his right-wing allies in revolt and Bush unable to cut him any more sweetheart deals, Israeli leader Ariel Sharon is floundering -- and he has only himself to blame.
By Aluf Benn [05/11/04]

Time to get out? With the war in Iraq turning into a nightmare, increasing numbers -- on the left and the right -- are calling for America to withdraw.
By Michelle Goldberg [05/10/04]

"Sometimes they pretended to kill me" An Al-Jazeera cameraman detained and tortured at Abu Ghraib recalls beatings, threats and photos of torture victims used as screen savers on military PCs.
By Phillip Robertson [05/08/04]

Reality check The media are finally showing the war in its full horror. What took them so long?
By Eric Boehlert [05/06/04]

"Stress and duress" Human Rights Watch's Kenneth Roth says America's use of coercive interrogation techniques inevitably leads to nightmares like Abu Ghraib.
By Tim Grieve [05/06/04]

The mouse that censored What's in Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" that Disney doesn't want you to see?
By Craig Unger [05/06/04]

Premature panic The doom-and-gloom brigade is savaging Kerry because the race is still tied after Bush's horrible April. But the campaign has barely begun.
By Tim Grieve [05/05/04]