Paul Krugman

On Sunday, a celebrating crowd gathered around a burning U.S. armored vehicle. Then a helicopter opened fire; a child and a journalist for an Arabic TV news channel were among those killed. Later, the channel repeatedly showed the journalist doubling over and screaming, "I'm dying; I'm dying."

The best book I've read about America after 9/11 isn't about either America or 9/11. It's "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning," an essay on the psychology of war by Chris Hedges, a veteran war correspondent.

Mr. Soros's political spending is driven by his desire to legalize heroin came from Newt Gingrich. And the bit about the Holocaust came from Tony Blankley, editorial page editor of The Washington Times, which has become the administration's de facto house organ.

"Everyone wants to go to Baghdad; real men want to go to Tehran." That was the attitude in Washington two years ago, when Ahmad Chalabi was assuring everyone that Iraqis would greet us with flowers.

One of the wonders of recent American politics has been the ability of Mr. Bush and his supporters to wrap their partisanship in the flag.

From a business point of view, Enron is a smoking ruin. But there's important evidence in the rubble. If Enron hadn't collapsed, we might still have only circumstantial evidence that energy companies artificially drove up prices during California's electricity crisis.

Everyone in America knows it, but not many politicians or mainstream journalists are willing to talk about it for fear of sounding conspiracy-minded: There is a substantial chance that the result of the 2004 presidential election will be suspect.

Accountability is important. The nation will be ill served if officials who didn't do all they could to prevent a terrorist attack, or led the nation into an unnecessary war, manage to shift the blame to someone else.

From a business point of view, Enron is a smoking ruin. But there's important evidence in the rubble. If Enron hadn't collapsed, we might still have only circumstantial evidence that energy companies artificially drove up prices during California's electricity crisis.

Fahrenheit 9/11" is a tendentious, flawed movie, but it tells essential truths about leaders who exploited a national tragedy for political gain, and the ordinary Americans who paid the price.

The formal occupation of Iraq came to an ignominious end yesterday with a furtive ceremony, held two days early to foil insurgent attacks, and a swift airborne exit for the chief administrator.

Last week The Washington Post got hold of an Office of Management and Budget memo that directed federal agencies to prepare for post-election cuts in programs that George Bush has been touting on the campaign trail.

Republicans, we hear, are frustrated by polls showing that the public has a poor opinion of George Bush's economic leadership. In their view, the good news about Mr. Bush's economic triumphs is being drowned out by the bad news from Iraq.

Last week Mr.

Didn't you know, in your gut, that something like Abu Ghraib would eventually come to light?

Last week an opinion piece in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz about the killing of Sheik Ahmed Yassin said, "This isn't America; the government did not invent intelligence material nor exaggerate the description of the threat to justify their attack."

After 9/11, the administration's secretiveness knew no limits — Americans, Ari Fleischer ominously warned, "need to watch what they say, watch what they do." Patriotic citizens were supposed to accept the administration's version of events, not ask awkward questions.

Greenspan 2003'te bütçe açığını 375 milyar dolar olarak veriyor. Brookings Institution'ın tahminlerine göre şirketlere verilen sübvansiyonlar, onların kibarca söyledikleri biçimiyle ticari destekler, 137.5 milyar dolar. Yani geçen yılki bütçe açığının %37'si şirketlere verilen destekler yüzünden.

Right now America is going through an Orwellian moment. On both the foreign policy and the fiscal fronts, the Bush administration is trying to rewrite history, to explain away its current embarrassments.

George Bush promised to bring honor and integrity back to the White House. Instead, he got rid of accountability.

People are saying terrible things about George Bush. They say that his officials weren't sincere about pledges to balance the budget.

Andrew Fastow, the company's former chief financial officer, and his wife, Lea, are reported to be engaged in plea-bargaining. Mr. Fastow's testimony will probably lead to charges against other former Enron executives.

Yesterday's eye-opening New York Times story about the inner circle of Conrad Black, the troubled chairman of Hollinger International, described him as a "throwback press baron."

The other day I found myself reading a leftist rag that made outrageous claims about America. It said that we are becoming a society in which the poor tend to stay poor, no matter how hard they work

Inviting Bush supporters to a fund-raiser, the host wrote, "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." No surprise there.

I was brought on to write about "my real home," economics and business, specifically international economics.

If our political system can't bring itself to choose one alternative or the other -- so far the commander in chief won't admit we have a problem -- we will face a nasty financial crisis.

Cronyism is an important factor in our Iraqi debacle. It's not just that reconstruction is much more expensive than it should be.

The press has become a lot less shy about pointing out the administration's exploitation of 9/11, partly because that exploitation has become so crushingly obvious.

Tezelden kendimizi Irak'tan kurtarmadıkça veya başka ülkeleri bu yükü çekmeye ikna etmedikçe, çok daha büyük bir orduya ihtiyacımız var. Bu da çok daha fazla para harcamak anlamına geliyor. Şu anda idare inkârdan geliyor. Başkan Bush "Çekilme olmayacak" diyor.