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IRAQ: Picking Up The Pieces

New twist in "South Park"/Scientology scuffle. Paris back with Paris. Plus: Is Laura Bush trying to kill the president?

Sarah Waters' grand new novel chronicles love, sex and obsession among four Britons in crumbling World War II London.

Using bogus health facts to scare women about the "dangers" of contraception, a fledgling movement fights for a culture in which sex = procreation.

Can we have a rational adult conversation?

She competes with me in everything and demands constant attention.

The current ballyhoo about immigrants sending U.S. dollars home exaggerates their potential and obscures some of their more negative effects.

Republican efforts to craft a policy and political agenda to carry the party into the midterm elections have stumbled repeatedly as GOP leaders face widespread disaffection and disagreement within the ranks.

by Greg Palast for The Guardian Get off it. All the carping, belly-aching and complaining about George Bush's incompetence in Iraq, from both the Left and now the Right, is just dead wrong. On the third anniversary of the tanks rolling over Iraq's border, most of the 59 million Homer Simpsons who **********Palast returns to the pages of the Guardian today with this column. Catch his commentaries weekly. ********** voted for Bush are beginning to doubt if his mission was accomplished. Not so. Don't kid yourself -- Bush and his co-conspirator, Dick Cheney, accomplished exactly what they set out to do. In case you've forgotten what their real mission was, let me remind you of White House spokesman Ari Fleisher's original announcement, three years ago, launching of what he called, "Operation Iraqi Liberation." O.I.L. How droll of them, how cute. Then, Karl Rove made the giggling boys in the White House change it to "OIF" -- Operation Iraqi Freedom. But the 101st Airborne wasn't sent to Basra to get its hands on Iraq's OIF. ....

A top Senate Democrat said Sunday that President Bush should be held responsible if he violated the law in authorizing the domestic spy program.  But Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said it is too early to tell if either censure or impeachment of Bush is called for.

The top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said Sunday that U.S. troops likely will remain there for the next few years though the numbers will be scaled back as Iraqi forces gain strength.

As the war in Iraq enters its fourth year, former US soldiers joined in demonstrations in many American cities over the weekend. Christian Parenti accompanied one group of Vietnam and Iraq War veterans who marched from Mobile to New Orleans to draw attention to Bush Administration policies that have led to the devastation of both Iraq and the Gulf Coast.

Pushy therapists, bickering models and corrupt cops may keep you riveted, but be honest: Has your favorite show outlived its premise?

A NEWSWEEK poll shows President Bush's approval rating dropping to new lows on domestic issues and rising public anger over Iraq and homeland security.

A week after the New York Times identified a human rights advocate as the iconic hooded figure at Abu Ghraib, the paper admits it made a mistake.

In an excerpt from Susan Straight's new novel, a mixed-race slave girl tries to outwit her captors.

This satirical film about a conscience-challenged tobacco lobbyist has a few glimmers of inspiration but never quite catches fire.

Philip Weiss explores why a New York theater company backed off from producing a celebrated play about the life and death of a young American activist in Gaza.

NCAA Tournament Day 1: Two upsets make it seem like pandemonium's broken out, and we got three.

IRAQ: Three Years Late And A Dollar Short