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Christopher Dickey explores how McCain vs. Obama is unsettling the old Confederacy.
 
 
 


What Bush Got Right

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Brothers in Arms
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BETWEEN THE LINES
A Catharsis in Denver?
 
 
Report From the Front
Howard Fineman interviews the presidential candidates
 
 
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TELEVISION

Helen Thomas, who has covered every sitting president since JFK, on the present—and future—direction of journalism

FIRST PERSON

A seeker and a New Age spiritualist, John Edwards's other woman believed she could help him make history.

CAMPAIGN 2008

The conservative author of a new book about Obama's faith discusses why the candidate could appeal to evangelicals.

Carla Bruni is just the kind of political spouse Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain are trying not to be.

HISTORY

The South tends to exemplify, if sometimes in an exaggerated way, much of what the nation thinks and feels.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

Ted Stevens' indictment mars an extraordinary Alaskan legacy.

BOOKS

A Bush-mocking parody of a popular kids' book catches fire.

CAMPAIGN 2008

Will Bill's intake affect Hillary's debt relief?

POLITICS

McCain is losing the war of the photo ops. Even his aides say the campaign has to improve.

CAMPAIGN 2008

Greeted by thousands of Europeans, Obama's world tour went smashingly well. But the candidate says he's not letting any of it go to his head.

DISPATCH

He passed a test in Berlin, but harder ones await.

A new poll finds Barack Obama leading John McCain by wide margins among Hispanic voters. But what impact will Latinos have on Election Day?

RICHARD WOLFFE

There are no easy questions during Obama's road trip

CAMPAIGN 2008

Obama's troop-cut policy gets support from the Iraqi government

CAMPAIGN 2008

Why evangelical leader Dobson is warming to the GOP candidate

 
 
 
Blogging '08

The Ruckus: NEWSWEEK's guest bloggers weigh in on the fierce primary battle. In partnership with the Media Bloggers Association.

 
 
August 20, 1998
U.S. cruise missiles hit targets in Afghanistan and Sudan in retaliation for the bombing of its African embassies on August 7. The mission, nicknamed "Operation Infinite Reach," killed 224 people and injured close to 5,000. In a televised address, President Bill Clinton told Americans the action was part of a "long, ongoing struggle between freedom and fanaticism." The U.S. struck Al-Qaeda training camps in eastern Afghanistan, as well as a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan. Intelligence sources believed that the plant, Al Shifa, had plans to manufacture chemical weapons for Osama Bin Laden, (who had lived in Khartoum during the 1990s). Later, some questioned the veracity of this intelligence; in 1999 the New York Times quoted high-ranking CIA and State Department officials as calling the evidence "weak." Four suspected militant training bases in eastern Afghanistan were also hit. Many around the world and in Washington accused Clinton of using the bombings as a political deflection from the turmoil caused by the Monica Lewinsky scandal. On August 17, Clinton had finally admitted his affair to the American people. However, three-quarters of Americans supported the bombings, though a third believed that the timing was "partially motivated" to distract people from the scandal.
 
 

He's endured the unendurable, and survived. Inside the mind and heart of John McCain.

On the road as the Illinois senator conducts a summer campaign swing.
 
The Peek
 
 
PROJECT GREEN
NWK Caption: At the Excel High School in Oakland, California a group of students, their teacher and members of community groups pose with air pollution monitors in front of a mural at the school.  July 26, 2008.       Left to Right:   Randy Colosky, a member of Global Community Monitor  wearing brown shirt ,Juan Hernandez, student (seated) ,   Ina Bendich, teacher Danyale Willingham,student in blue top).Elizabeth de Rham far right, member of the Rose Foundation.

Young pollution sleuths and community activists fight for healthier air.

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