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Clear-eyed reporting needed | Six brutal truths about Iraq COMMENTARY General William Odom, one of the earliest advocates of an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, attacks some of the mythologies that are interfering with an honest debate about how to proceed in the Middle East and says the media have failed to recognize dramatic changes in the region. 
Open source reporting? | A watchdog reporter gives up on newspapers – but sees a future on the Internet COMMENTARY John McQuaid, formerly of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, is betting that open-sourced journalism will breathe new life into investigative and explanatory journalism.
Checks, balances and verification | The state secrets privilege is too easy to abuse COMMENTARY Justice is not served when a federal court simply defers to the government’s assertion of a “state secrets privilege.” Renowned constitutional scholar Louis Fisher reviews a controversial Supreme Court decision and writes that judges should insist on seeing the evidence the government is so intent on keeping secret from the public.
Letter from Austin | Will Bush work with Democrats? He did back in Austin COMMENTARY Bush got along with Democrats when he was governor of Texas; maybe dropping Rumsfeld and, possibly, getting off Cheney’s lap are signals he’s preparing to try a little bipartisanship in Washington.
The overseas press | Foreign editorials ask: After the U.S. elections, what's next? COMMENTARY Some see defeat for Bush as overdue and the Democratic victory as a victory for all nations; some see little difference between the two parties when it comes to the Iraq war.
A to-do list for Congress | Let the oversight begin! COMMENTARY Andrew Rudalevige, author of 'The New Imperial Presidency,' proposes a to-do list for the 110th Congress.
The cost of Iraq | The more-than-$2-trillion war COMMENTARY Two scholars, one a Nobel Prize winner, revisit their estimate of the true cost of the Iraq war – and find that $2 trillion was too low. They consider not only the current and future budgetary costs, but the economic impact of lives lost, jobs interrupted and oil prices driven higher by political uncertainty in the Middle East.
The overseas press | One eye on Iraq, one eye on the U.S. elections COMMENTARY The overseas press: In Britain, a pullout is now seen as a necessity; the question is what we leave behind, and whether the rest of the Middle East will explode. Some see ‘cut and run’ as no longer pejorative—as long as it results in cutting our losses.
High-octane deception | The need for responsible reporting on profits -- including our own COMMENTARY Journalists need to stop letting CEOs get away with deceptive descriptions of their profits, writes Morton Mintz. And that’s certainly true in our own industry.
A gadfly's view | Public diplomacy in a time of choler COMMENTARY Chas Freeman, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, writes that we have lost international support not because foreigners hate our values but because they believe we are repudiating them and behaving contrary to them. 'If we can rediscover and reaffirm the identity and values that made our republic so great, we will find much support abroad, including among those in the Muslim world we now wrongly dismiss as enemies rather than friends.'
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