The former head of Army’s Media Relations in Afghanistan lets loose on the marketing of Osama, the coffin controversy, and engineering combat footage for NBC.

Meet Doug Brooks, whose trade group represents the private military industry's biggest players. He makes hired guns sound like U.N. peacekeepers.

The very idea of taking "freedom" abroad through the United States Armed Forces is an absurdity, unless you realize who is being freed.

Clicks, not cliques result from teens' use of an online activism site. But are they really engaging in activism?

Edwidge Danticat's memoir weaves her most intimate tale yet, of brotherhood and family amid Haiti's, and the United States', chaotic circumstances.

Tall tales from the annals of the Bush Administration.

Vice President Dick Cheney argues that stability in Iraq—and Iran—will occur through "bullets, bombing and war." A political animation.

Playing the blame game with our infrastructure When the government's own undercover investigators can smuggle bomb parts onto a plane, you have to wonder whether all the wands and explosives-sniffing "puffers" are doing any good. The final installment of a seven-part series on the lessons of 9/11.

Between General Petraeus' goofy charts and Ambassador Crocker's endless platitudes, not much was accomplished on the second day of hearings on the troop surge in Iraq.

Myths and facts about the 9/11 attacks Six years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, there's plenty of unanswered questions about why the Bush administration didn't prevent them. But the most popular 9/11 conspiracy theories are full of holes, too. Part six of a seven-part series on the lessons of 9/11.

Amid protests and partisan posturing the top military commander and diplomat in Iraq testified before Congress, reporting mild progress in stabilizing the country. Both agree that the war is far from over.

Playing the blame game with our infrastructure After Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration set out to lessen the federal government's culpability in the wake of natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and other emergencies.

Attack on our open ports 20 million cargo containers pass through U.S. ports every year. But only a small fraction is adequately screened for dirty bombs or other terrorist threats. Part four in a series on the lessons of 9/11.

The man in charge of winning the war has been called a "walking mass of ambition." Is General David Petraeus eyeing a White House run—and what does that mean for what he says about Iraq?