Since March, Ukraine’s defence minister, Yevhen Marchuk, has been searching for missing missiles and other weapons that could have fallen into terrorist hands or been sold to rogue states … Marchuk has complained that...

President Bush has spent seven of every $10 he has raised for his re-election campaign, more than half of it on television ads, and is asking supporters for even more money. The Bush campaign...

I was involved in a discussion about the evolution of language on Metafilter. Someone disputed something I wrote concerning that possibly language was an unintended byproduct of undirected human evolution. Perhaps a kink in...

The [British] official also cites a complaint voiced by several British officials involved in Iraq: that their American counterparts took no pains to hide their own ideological goals in getting Iraq pacified. One described...

The Coalition Provisional Authority is committing billions of dollars to ill-conceived projects just before it dissolves … the U.S.-controlled Program Review Board in charge of managing Iraq’s finances recently approved the expenditure of nearly...

In the wake of a truce last month that averted an all-out assault by U.S. Marines, [Fallujah] has taken on the trappings of a mini-republic that lives largely according to its own rules …...

The lawyer for a New Jersey-born reservist charged in the Iraq prisoner abuse case hopes to interview current and former detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison to bolster his contention that senior military officers...

The U.S. policy, details of which have not been previously disclosed, was approved in early September [2003] … Wendy Patten, a lawyer and U.S. advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, said two provisions in...

The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, issued a classified order last November directing military guards to hide a prisoner, later dubbed “Triple X” by soldiers, from Red Cross inspectors and...

Courtesy of Atrios and Krugman and Wikipedia: The House and Senate did not both come under Republican rule during Reagan’s time. The Berlin Wall did not come down when Reagan was in office. Reagan...