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Editorial: The pain of war
Our military leaders have been realistic from the start about the risks of war in Iraq. Americans should prepare for a long and costly commitment.

Editorial: Patriotic disguise
Under cover of patriotism: another attack on Florida's public schools.

Letters: Remember that our military has civilian control
For those folks who feel, as I do, that they need to protest the war in Iraq, it is important to distinguish between the military and the civilian administration. Our troops are not to blame for the war; they are just obligated to fight it. The G.I.s are just men and women like us who happen to be soldiers right now. They deserve not just our support, but also our most sincere gratitude for risking their lives to do their best to protect us.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone: Live from Iraq: CNN filters war's grim reality
It's happened again: I'm a CNN junkie. I watch the news when I get up, at midday in the newsroom, and any time at night when I can get control of the remote and switch off the cartoons.

Jan Glidewell: Remote ancestors gave men this urge
"Let's see," said my wife, grabbing the object out of my hand and heading for the couch.

Susan Taylor Martin: Jordanians feel pain from war next door
PETRA, Jordan -- Life is anything but rosy here in the "rose-red city half as old as time."

 

Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.

Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.

Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.

Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.