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Word emerged yesterday of another mysterious, non-hostile fatality in Iraq. His name is Jeremiah Hughes.

She is still officially listed among the "nonhostile -- accident" victims. So the mystery remains.

Why is the Pax World family of mutual funds investing in a defense contractor with thousands of employees deployed in the Persian Gulf?

If Dick Cheney wants to get a rise out of the troops in theater, he should just keep talking.

Last week, on the fifth anniversary of American military involvement in Iraq, anti-war rallies were held in various locations around the country. The...

It only makes sense that the media have focused non-stop on the looming threat of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago while paying scant attention to the fact that the presumptive Republican nominee for president apparently doesn't have a clue about what's going on in the Middle East. And with the U.S. death toll hitting 4,000, John McCain's tenuous grasp on what is happening in the region becomes all the more worthy of attention. READ MORE John McCain, Iraq, and the Eyewitness Fallacy: John McCain's glowing post-visit assessment of conditions in Iraq, and Hillary Clinton's hyperbolically harrowing recollections of her 1996 trip to Bosnia both stand as shining examples of what the British writer Malcolm Muggeridge dubbed "the eyewitness fallacy." In a brilliant essay, Muggeridge described public figures of strong conviction throughout history -- many of them greatly admired and well-meaning -- who, in eyewitness accounts, saw what they wanted to see, and became what they wanted to be. READ MORE

As we mark this painful milestone, we must ask ourselves: what is the moral justification for allowing this war to continue?

Here is a new song for 4000 American soldiers and the 89,000 Iraqi civilians and all the others who have died as a result of George Bush's war.

Today, like yesterday and tomorrow, we will lose some of the finest Americans we have. That is a harsh reminder that disastrous policy decisions have tragic consequences.

Like the hapless characters in Waiting For Godot, America sits and watches in fascination as the Democratic nomination race grinds into yet another ca...