Time Magazine

Not long before our nation launched the invasion of Iraq, our longest-serving Senator, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, stood on the Senate floor and said: "This chamber is, for the most part, silent—ominously, dreadfully silent.

If the Marines are indeed guilty of an atrocity, they had the ill fortune to have committed their crime in the worst possible place: outside the front door of a budding Iraqi journalist and human-rights activist. By Jeffrey Kluger

Controversy rages as Germany's former chancellor lands a position with Russia's big energy supplier. By Adam Smith

Turkey's media law strengthens the Dogan Group's hand - and tightens controls on free expression