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For years, pioneering blogger Andrew Sullivan was one of the most vocal supporters of the war in Iraq. Time and the war's wretched progress gradually forced him to change his thinking, however, and a new collection of his writings on the subject charts the disillusioning step-by-step.
Read MoreIt has become conventional wisdom to say that the first Gulf War was one of necessity, while the second was one of choice--but a collection of reflections challenges that maxim
Read MoreMSNBC's Rachel Maddow has made a career of joking about easy political targets - so what happens when she tries to deliver a factual inquiry of a serious subject? Nothing funny, as Greg Waldmann discovers.
Read MoreJohn Nance Garner famously referred to the vice presidency as being not worth a bucket of warm, er, spit - and yet, during the two terms of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney used that office to wield unprecedented power. The former vice president writes an unapologetic memoir.
Read MoreIf you're hoping for a heartfelt mea culpa from an architect of two disastrous wars, this isn't it. Donald Rumsfeld's memoir is shallow at best, cynically self-serving at worst.
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