The Boston Globe

Local efforts raise privacy alarms. By Charlie Savage

Boston University professor Andrew J. Bacevich has been a persistent, vocal critic of the Iraq war, calling the conflict a catastrophic failure. This week, the retired Army lieutenant colonel received the grim news that his son had been killed on patrol there. By Brian MacQuarrie

Negotiators from the United States are trying to weaken the language of a climate change declaration set to be unveiled at next month's G-8 summit of the world's leading industrial powers, according to documents. By Juliet Eilperin

Irak'taki asker sayısını artırmanın güvenlik sorununu çözebileceğini düşünen Bush bir noktayı göz ardı ediyor: Huzursuzluğu bizzat, Iraklıların giderek öfke duyduğu Amerikan askerleri yaratıyor

I have never seen a stronger field of Democratic presidential candidates, nor a weaker Republican one. Yet, as a Red Sox fan, I am always wary of this-could-be-the-year fever. By Robert Kuttner

The new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, said yesterday that he is launching an aggressive investigation into whether the Bush administration has violated any of the laws it claimed a right to ignore in presidential "signing statements." By Charlie Savage

Harvard researchers analyze cigarette data. By Stephen Smith

Clinton White House speechwriter assesses the strange new role played by President Bush on Wednesday night, in a strange new setting. By Ted Widmer

The 25 foreign ministers of the European Union embarrassed themselves last week when they agreed to punish Turkey for refusing to open its ports and airfields to the Greek Republic of Cyprus.

Al Gore plans to start a grass-roots political movement next month to seek a "freeze" on carbon emissions that scientists say are to blame for global warming. By Eric Auchard

Thirty-five years ago, Frances Moore Lappé's revolutionary cookbook "Diet for a Small Planet" warned of the dire consequences of a growing taste for meat. For example, it takes up to 16 times more farmland to sustain people on a diet of animal protein than on a diet of plant protein.

Throughout the Bush era, voters have not always connected the dots. The Foley scandal now enveloping the House Republican leadership offers a belated opportunity for voters to make some connections. By Robert Kuttner

Report says growth threatens resources. By John Donnelly

Systems to have little direct role in terror fight. By Bryan Bender

This war was never supposed to happen. In the era of globalization, no two countries that possess McDonald's are supposed to go to war. Well, I've eaten at McDonald's in Tel Aviv and Beirut. And Israel and Lebanon have just had a very nasty war. By Mark LeVine

Guantanamo prisoners found hanging in cells. By Charlie Savage

Many members of the faculty and student body already have voiced their objection to the invitation, arguing that Rice's actions as secretary of state are inconsistent with the broader humanistic values of the university and the Catholic and Jesuit traditions from which those values derive.

This weekend marked the ninth anniversary of the international Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans the development, production, and use of deadly chemical agents and requires the destruction of existing stockpiles. By Jonathan B. Tucker and Paul F. Walker

The great liberator of Iraq was actually the hyena that cleaned out the nation. By Derrick Z. Jackson

Millions missing from program for rebuilding. By Farah Stockman

Fewer volunteers for new drug plan. By Jeffrey Krasner

See Iraq withdrawal, deployment in region. By Rick Klein

Betty Friedan, the author and feminist activist whose 1963 bestseller, ''The Feminine Mystique," helped inspire one of the 20th century's great social movements, died at her Washington home yesterday, her birthday. She was 85. By Mark Feeney

When Democrats challenge the Bush administration regarding its policy in Iraq, Republicans challenge their patriotism and toughness. By Joan Vennochi

Pride must go before he falls. This is why Samuel Alito hopped to liberal burrows on Capitol Hill to proclaim the burial of his conservative ideology. By Derrick Z. Jackson

As the media screams about the one-two punch of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the question becomes how many more times does America need to be knocked to the canvas before we answer the bell on global warming. By Derrick Z. Jackson

Mother of soldier killed in Iraq touring nation. By Michael Levenson

As business ethics fall, consumer activism rises. By Lawrence B. Glickman

THE OTHER DAY, the new secretary of homeland security, Michael Chertoff, scrapped the moronic rule requiring everyone to stay seated for 30 minutes coming in or out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

The impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, should be part of mainstream political discourse. By Ralph Nader and Kevin Zeese