The Pentagon

Droning on and on

Dude, Where's My Flying Car?

9/11's 10-Year Anniversary Prompts LAPD to be at 'Full Strength,' Chief Beck Says

​Updated at the bottom with news of a "credible" terrorist threat for the East Coast. First posed at 7 a.m. Though we know that two of the 9/11 attackers spent time in Los Angeles before the events that changed the course of contemporary American history, our city is often though of as a low- ... More >>

Mystery Missile Was Actually A U.S. Airways Flight From Hawaii To Phoenix

CBS8 San DiegoNothing to see here​Remember that mysterious missile-trail that had everyone scratching their heads yesterday? Turns out to have a very, very boring explanation.It was a U.S. Airways flight from Honolulu to Phoenix.Liem Bahneman, a software engineer and amateur photographer from Seat ... More >>

BEST PULLING DOWN THE PANTS OF THE PIGGIES

The Cookie Monster: Baking With the Federal Government

Flickr/jespahjoynon-government brownies​ It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the Pentagon has an absurdly long document for pretty much everything. Including baking oatmeal cookies and brownies, the specifications for which run 26 pages. True, bakers will tell you that baking is a spe ... More >>

Top Chef Contestant Brian Hill's Comfort Truck Rolls Out

Elina ShatkinChef Brian Hill poses in front of his Comfort Truck.​ When Mary J. Blige dubs your homemade tortilla chips "crack chips," (because they're so addictive they're like... well, you get it), you don't think twice about putting them on the menu. Chef Brian Hill's Comfort Truck (Twitte ... More >>

What Would 9-11 Be Like in the Age of Social Media?

During the President's health care speech two days ago, the shared experience that is the realtime Internet reacted to a perfect Twitter-fodder event -- Joe Wilson's "you lie" outburst -- with a surprising amount of conversation about the real issue in the room, health care reform. This realtime 2 ... More >>

Guantánamo’s Final Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms

The Eel World

For the past decade, E has created parallel universes. Turns out there's a reason why

The Films That Got Away

Something in the Air

In the horror films of Larry Fessenden, what you can’t see will kill you

Scandalous! A Year of Republican Treachery

IS THE DOCTOR In?

Howard Dean and the fight for the DNC's soul

Scandalous! A Year of Republican Treachery

4 Ways to Find Out What’s Really Happening in Iraq

The Army You Have . . .

. . . Under Bush and Rumsfeld couldn’t care less if your humvee is armored with cardboard

Who's Unpatriotic?

Teaching Torture

Congress quietly keeps School of the Americas alive

Echoes of the Fall

The Smithsonian’s September 11 collection

Dirty Pictures, Dirty War

Doing your own thing in Abu Ghraib

Swallow This, Deep Throat

A case for silencing anonymous sources

War by Numbers

Hole in the Sand

Still time for the U.N. to save Iraq

On Bended Knees

Tim Robbins’ Embedded

Occupational Hazards

The peace movement returns

The Neocons’ New Enemy: The CIA

Laurie Mylroie’s crazy ideas about 9/11

Weapons of Mass Compliance

Now at a tech lab near you, agony-inducing tools that will control your disorderly tendencies and blast those riotous urges

The War on Due Process

With Patriot Act power, Bush and Ashcroft try to conquer the legal system

As Luck Would Have It . . .

A 9/11 victim testifies that the carnage could have been averted

Soldiers of Fortune 500

Shock and Awe

Pro-war propaganda

Ill-Suited for War

If the Bush administration is right about Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons, why is it sending American troops into battle so unprepared?

The September 11 That Never Was

A summer of anti-American paranoia

The Last Defender of the American Republic?

An interview with Gore Vidal

The Terror Watch

A chronology of events leading up to 9/11

The Back Story

A reading list

Naturellement

Pure War

The Crash of Civilizations

12 highlights from 365 days

A Small Universe of People

The Case for a Cease-fire

Feel the Draft

We need a universal military call-up to start the real debate on this war

Change in the Weather

Off the sequence

Start of History

The hour of the furnaces

Nader Speaks

Comic Belief

The soul in two dimensions

Gassed at CNN

Denounced and deserted, Tailwind producer is not dispirited

Thus Spake Lennon

The Feel-Good War