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Iraq War

Burn Pits

by Scott Horton,

Joseph Hickman discusses his new book, The Burn Pits, which tells the story of thousands of U.S. soldiers who, after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, have developed rare cancers and respiratory diseases.

Chronicle of a War Foretold

by Charles Glass,

On the move with Ahmad Chalabi, the man who would be king

First-Person Shooters

by Sam Sacks,

What’s missing in contemporary war fiction

“Today Is Better Than Tomorrow”

by Benjamin Busch,

A Marine returns to a divided Iraq

Why We Lost in Iraq and Afghanistan

by Daniel Bolger,

A general’s account of the military’s mistakes

War Games

by Brian Turner,

By Brian Turner, from My Life as a Foreign Country, out next month from W. W. Norton. Turner, a veteran of the Iraq war, is the author of two books…

In Praise of Michael Hastings

by John R. MacArthur,

The Last Magazine exposes the lies and obfuscations of the march to war in Iraq

Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare

by Andrew Cockburn,

Gareth Porter on the true history of Iran’s nuclear program

Voice in the Night

by Jennifer Percy,

From Demon Camp: A Soldier’s Exorcism, by Jennifer Percy, to be published in January by Scribner. The book is an account of the two summers Percy spent reporting on a…

Open Season

From a transcript of a meeting held on August 6 by the town council of Deer Trail, Colorado. On July 2, Phillip Steel, a local resident, proposed an ordinance to…

Last Request

From emails exchanged by employees of the U.S. State Department, an anonymous Iraqi man known here by the pseudonym Omar, and Omar’s brother. In 2011, Omar, who had worked as…