Halliburton?s construction-and-engineering subsidiary … Brown & Root was part of a consortium of four companies that built about eighty-five per cent of the infrastructure needed by the Army during the Vietnam War. At the...

By refusing to make public its estimates of civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has undercut international support for the US campaigns in those countries and has made the postwar stabilization of...

Photos of happy newlyweds in San Francisco.

Rikers Island sits in the East River at the opening of Bowery Bay. Once it was small and bucolic and green, an 87-acre patch of land owned since 1664 by a family of early...

It’s bad enough if your parents make a suprise visit when you’re say, away at College. But how would you handle it if your Mum popped up in the middle of Iraq when you’re...

On bad days Toby said he worked as a “pipette bitch.” … Supposedly Toby was at the center of an economic revolution in biotech. The most-wanted jobs of the new millennium were in genomics;...

I got the flu. This was bad, but not unprecedented. What I was not prepared for was a secondary bacterial infection that turned me into a lean green snot-producing machine. Thankfully, this state of...

So as revealed in the famous memo, the US ham-fistedly bugged the UN Security Council members during the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq. What’s now emerged is that the bugging enabled the US...

So while the US Army stayed safe within its protected compound, a disciplined, heavily armed force overran key Iraqi positions and freed prisoners, slaughtering all resistance in its path. Some people are blaming the...

I heard yet another conservative pundit on the radio this morning dissing “Old Europe” and its high unemployment rate compared with the US. This is the usual line taken by people who have invented...