Slide Show: The Nation at War
From the Civil War and D-Day to Iraq and Afghanistan, images and articles from our history archive of military conflicts and efforts to make peace.
2009
1999
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Monsanto: Playing God
Monsanto is dangerously re-engineering America's food supply.
1995
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Cables Coming in From the Cold
Miriam Schneir & Walter Schneir
There's good reason to be skeptical about the government's Venona releases and the claim that they are the final word on the cold-war espionage cases.
1994
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Opting Out
Jack Kevorkian is leading the movement to allow people to take death in their own hands.
1990
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Remembering Tiananmen Square
The Tiananmen Square massacre remains shrouded in myth. This eyewitness report by a Human Rights Watch observer makes the horror plain.
1986
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The Lost People of La Joya
Jon Lee Anderson & Lucia Annunziata
Five years after a massacre, a Salvadoran town still battles for survival against US-backed military forces.
1984
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The Left, The Democrats & the Future
Andrew Kopkind & Alexander Cockburn : Convention Coverage
Democrats seek the center--and lose their moorings.
1981
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Reagan Shot: The Monster In Our Midst
John Hinckley may have been the one to pull the trigger, but who's to blame for his anger?
1980
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Reagan Wins: The Hollow Man
Like a veteran door-to-door salesman, Ronald Reagan is a huckster, only instead of vacuum cleaners, he peddles fear--so successfully that he is now president of the United States.
1979
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Grace Under Pressure in Harrisburg
Residents near the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor meet the fallout threat with uncommon grace and even humor.
1977
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High Tension in the Energy Debate: The Clamshell Reaction
The '60s come alive again in the protest organized by the Clamshell Alliance against the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire.
1976
1975
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End of Vietnam: The Shameful Truth
As the rout of Saigon showed, when it came to Vietnam our "best and the brightest" were, more accurately, the worst and the dumbest.
1974
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Playing Politics With Justice
Gerald Ford hands Richard Nixon his get-out-of-jail free card.
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The Nixon Impeachment Saga
The House Judiciary Committee says Richard Nixon must stand trial in the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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