Watchdog

The flawed thinking of the administration’s torture advocates

An expert military interrogator wants to know why the president's legal advisers were so intent on rationalizing the violation of longstanding law in order to adopt an approach — coercion…

The BP disaster underscores government as the problem, not the solution

After decades of planned neglect, mismanagement and ideological attack, the American government, across the board, has gotten out of the way of corporate America – and the country is paying…

U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan are committing atrocities, lying, and getting away with it

Jerome Starkey recently reported for The Times of London about a night raid on Feb. 12 in which U.S. and Afghan gunmen opened fire on two pregnant women, a teenage…

‘Supporting the troops’ means withdrawing them

Gen. William Odom writes that opponents of the war should focus public attention on the fact that Bush’s obstinate refusal to admit defeat is causing the troops enormous psychological as…

What’s wrong with cutting and running?

Everything that opponents of a pullout say would happen if the U.S. left Iraq is happening already, says retired Gen. William E. Odom, the head of the National Security Agency…

The Press and the Presidency

‘President Bush was obsessed from the beginning of his administration with what he regarded as unjustified intrusions by the press.’

The Press and the Presidency: Silencing the Watchdog

‘President Bush was obsessed from the beginning of his administration with what he regarded as unjustified intrusions by the press.’

Digital Records Reveal Corruption on Capitol Hill

The 2006 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting was awarded to the staffs of The San Diego Union-Tribune and Copley News Service, “with notable work by Marcus Stern and Jerry Kammer,”…

Democracy Can Complicate the Job of Journalists

When a decade of conflict ended, ‘what many Nepali journalists did not anticipate was that the worst had yet to come.’

Determining the Reliability of a Key CIA Source

After his newspaper story exposed the CIA’s reliance on a con man to determine if Iraq had WMD, a journalist dug deeper to unravel the mystery.