Los Angeles Times

Toward the end of a steamy summer week in 2003, reporters were peppering the White House with phone calls and e-mails, looking for someone to defend the administration's claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. By Tom Hamburger and Sonni Efron

Cindy Sheehan deserves to meet with the president as much as those forking over the big bucks. By Rosa Brooks

Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. acknowledged Wednesday that he had registered as a lobbyist for the cosmetics industry in 2001 - a fact he omitted on a questionnaire he delivered to a Senate committee Tuesday. By Maura Reynolds

Members of a California battalion in Iraq are under investigation for alleged abuse of detainees and extortion of merchants. By Scott Gold and Rone Tempest

Most countries are proud to have a healthcare system. It's an organized way of helping the sick and infirm — a mark of genuine civilization. Not so here, alas, where the health system is rapidly becoming a health hazard. By Barbara Ehrenreich

She hugged and laughed her way through war zones with an effervescence belying her seriousness of purpose. By Doug Smith

Türkiye'yi kim kaybetti? İki aydır ABD basınında pek çok makalede bu soru soruldu. Anlaşılan Washington'dakiler, eski müttefikimizin giderek daha Amerikan karşıtı olduğunda hemfikir olmaya başladı. Graham E. Fuller

The saga begins on the presidential campaign trail in 2000, when candidate George W. Bush promised he would include carbon dioxide — the gas that is the major cause of greenhouse warming — on the list of pollutants that power plants would need to start reducing. By Bill McKibben

National defense now extends beyond U.S. borders to include acts of 'active deterrence.' By John Hendren

Bush May Soon Achieve His Energy Exploration Goal as the GOP Adds the Measure to a Budget Bill. By Richard Simon

The fighting's burden falls particularly hard on the state, say backers of an antiwar resolution.

What if the U.S. doesn't like what the voters like in the Mideast and beyond? By Juan Cole

U.S. troops in Iraq are only trying to buy time. By Andrew J. Bacevich

More than 200 Fish and Wildlife researchers cite cases where conclusions were reversed to weaken protections and favor business, a survey finds. By Julie Cart

Special interest groups report expenditures for the first half of 2004. Chamber of Commerce and AMA top the list, with $39 million. By Peter Wallsten

The American healthcare system is the best in the world. Or so we are often told. But is it really true? By Peter Rost

Millions of Americans probably learned about last week's horrific attack on U.S. troops in Mosul while wrapping Christmas presents or stuffing packages into the SUV after a last-minute shopping blitz at the mall. by Ronald Brownstein.

When I read that Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the 89-year-old former leader of Chile, had been placed under house arrest earlier this week and declared competent to stand trial for his many crimes, it was no abstract issue for me. By Francisco Letelier

As signatories to the Kyoto pact adopt ways to cut gas emissions, America is increasingly shut out, having balked at ratifying the accord. By Héctor Tobar

Afghanistan's crop 'has spread like wildfire.'

An offensive could further divide Iraq prior to elections, Qazi says, adding that the world body is prepared to mediate a resolution.

In a presidential campaign that's grown increasingly bitter, maybe the one thing both sides can wish for is a decisive result.

Marines were on the verge of taking the city in April when politics intervened. U.S. misjudgment, disagreement and shifting strategy ended up fanning the flames of the Iraqi insurgency.

If you want to know just how far the United States has drifted from the global conversation on key environmental issues, consider a speech that was given this month — and one that wasn't.

Bush is Giving Latin America the Willies

Placing a heavy emphasis on energy production in the American West, the Bush administration has moved aggressively to open up broad areas of largely unspoiled federal land to oil and gas exploration.

A comprehensive examination of the U.S.-led agency that oversaw the rebuilding of Iraq has triggered at least 27 criminal investigations and produced evidence of millions of dollars' worth of fraud, waste and abuse, according to a report by the Coalition Provisional Authority's inspector general.

Quietly and with minimal coverage in the U.S. press, the Navy announced that from mid-July through August it would hold exercises dubbed Operation Summer Pulse '04 in waters off the China coast near Taiwan.

More than 4,000 scientists, including 48 Nobel Prize winners and 127 members of the National Academy of Sciences, accused the Bush administration Thursday of distorting and suppressing science to suit its political goals.

'What's More American Than Asking Questions?' by Michael Moore