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AT ITS SOUTHERN BORDER, where the United States of America ends in a tangle of barbed wire and manzanita bushes, the red dirt desert fills each night with thousands of [...]

Dr. David Graham is losing weight again. His wife noticed first, then his colleagues at the Food and Drug Administration. Graham is a skinny man, and when he drops weight, [...]

In a season of campaign rallies and million-dollar ad buys, President Bush opted for one decidedly understated ceremony. On October 22, just 11 days before the election, he boarded Air [...]

The auctioning off of Iraq began in the summer of 2003 in a packed conference room at the Grand Hyatt in Amman, Jordan. More than 300 executives had gathered from [...]

JEFFREY JONES KNOWS HOW TO FUEL A WAR. As the Director of the Pentagon's Defense Energy Support Center, he traveled the Persian Gulf in the Months before Operation Iraqi Freedom [...]

Grover G. Norquist is in fine form as he warms up the crowd at his Wednesday morning meeting. The conference room at Americans for Tax Reform headquarters is packed on [...]

LIKE MANY of President Bush's lower-court nominees, William H. Pryor Jr. has had a hand in just about every legal social theory that drives Senate Democrats to outrage. As the [...]

SHORTLY AFTER 4:30 P.M. ON MONDAY, April 14, 2003, the power went out at the Motiva refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. The massive plant shut down instantly and, as is [...]

NEARLY THREE DECADES after leaving his job as a marketing manager at Colgate-Palmolive, Ed McAteer, considered one of the godfathers of the modern Religious Right, still sounds like a salesman. [...]

ANYONE VISITING THE SENIOR center in Woodbridge, Virginia, on a Tuesday runs a serious risk of being ignored, Tuesday being the appointed day for the weekly Spanish lesson, the arts-and-crafts [...]

IN WAINWRIGHT, ALASKA, a village of about 500 Inupiat Eskimo north of the Arctic Circle, most people live off the land, hunting whale and caribou when the weather allows, drilling […]

Both men knew what they were witnessing could bring down a plane. Over the 2003 Thanksgiving holiday, Thomas Bittler and Ray Guagliardi, federal training coordinators at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, [...]

On January 8, 2004, Mark Guzzetta, a prominent Florida developer, helped host a fundraiser for the Bush campaign. In the four hours that Air Force One was on the tarmac [...]

It has been called a modern-day Manhattan Project-a spending spree so vast and rapid that it might change the face of biological science. In the wake of 9/11, the U.S. [...]

HALLIBURTON HAS BEEN ENJOYING a good couple of years. Since September 11, the Bush administration has awarded the world's second-largest oil-services company at least $2.2 billion in defense-related business, mostly [...]

In April, as American tanks approached the outskirts of Baghdad, Pentagon officials suggested that only U.S. companies would be allowed to take part in the postwar reconstruction of Iraq's oil [...]

Blood Money: A Story of Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq By T. Christian Miller. Little, Brown & Co. $24.99. The Bush administration's reconstruction of Iraq was [...]

Clark Kent Ervin was stirring up trouble right until the end. Late last year--just weeks before he was unceremoniously dismissed from his job as the chief internal watchdog for the […]

For conservative leaders, the best part of the Medicare bill President Bush signed in December had absolutely nothing to do with Medicare. Rather, the provision that House Speaker Dennis Hastert [...]

BAD MEAT made an activist out of John Munsell. Before the tainted beef arrived--USDA-approved and vacuum-sealed--at Montana Quality Foods, Munsell's family-run packing plant, this die-hard Republican had no reason to […]

The man who ran President Bush's last campaign has a new job, but he won't be checking poll numbers or arranging fundraisers. Instead, Joe Allbaugh, who left the Bush administration [...]

Muhammad Ali's name is a problem. Early this year, the New York-born Muslim went to his local Western Union in Brooklyn to wire $80 for schoolbooks to a friend in [...]

When tobacco companies began paying $246 billion in 1998 to offset the cost of treating smoking-related illnesses, state officials celebrated. The money, they promised, would go to prevent smoking, a [...]

Since the end of the Cold War, the defense industry and its congressional allies have been quietly campaigning for a new type of nuclear weapon. Rather than relying on big [...]

Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program By Stephen Grey. St. Martin's Press. $25.95. The flight to hell is upholstered with leather seats. The passengers get headphones, [...]

SOHAIL MOHAMMED cleared his calendar as soon as the Twin Towers collapsed. The clients who had hired him to argue traffic violations and immigration pleas before New Jersey courts would [...]

Looks at the efforts of the U.S. government to prevent the illegal immigration of Mexicans to the country. Information on the Minuteman Project designed to capture illegal immigrants crossing the border of Arizona; Basis of Colorado State Representative Tom Tancredo for turning illegal immigration into a national-security issue; Background on the organizers and volunteers of the Minuteman Project; Actions taken by talk radio hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou against immigration.

Deals with how South African hit men, Serbian paramilitaries, and other human rights violators became guns for hire for military contractors in Iraq. Terms of the contract between Hart Group and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Decision of the U.S. government and its allies to turn to private companies to fill military jobs; Key difference between the contract soldiers and U.S. troops.

Focuses on the efforts of U.S. Pentagon official and Republicans to deliver Iraq's wireless market to Qualcomm as of September 2004. Details of a conference regarding Iraq's need for wireless communication; Support of several government officials for Qualcomm; Stance of the Iraqi government on the telecommunication issue.

Analyzes the increase in contract spending of the U.S. government since 1990. Impact of the government's lack of contract supervision and inspection on the economic status of the country; Abuses in the contracting system of the government; Overview of the fuel buying contract between the U.S. and Iraq. INSET: Civil Servants As the Enemy.

Recognizes the health risks of toxic emissions from industrial plants in the Port Arthur community in Texas. Efforts of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to monitor violators of the Clean Air Act of 1970; Criticism on the policy of U.S. President George W. Bush to allow pollution from power plants and industrial sites; Evidence of symptoms due to exposure of residents to airborne toxins.

Profiles Ed McAteer, a marketing manager at Colgate Palmolive in the U.S. Career history; Job description; Characteristics of McAteer.

Focuses on government contracts designated for small minority businesses that were acquired by the company Halliburton. Partnership between Olgoonik Corp., a company owned by a tribe in Wainwright, Alaska, and Halliburton; Benefits being enjoyed by tribal companies; Key selling points of tribal companies; Impact of the partnership on the employment rate in Wainwright.

Reports on how U.S. federal managers are loosening airport security rules and compromising passenger safety due to pressure from the airlines. Testimony of Thomas Bittler and Ray Guagliardi, former federal training coordinators of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), on repeated security breach at the airports; Aim of the Congress in federalizing the airport-screening workforce; Amount of funding given by the government to the TSA since the September 1, 2001 terrorist attacks in the country.

Focuses on the fundraising activities of executives and lobbyists for the re-election campaign of U.S. President George W. Bush. Importance of bundling to political fund raisers; Information on several executives who have contributed significant amounts for the re-election campaign; Reasons behind the fund raisers' support for Bush's administration.

Focuses on the role of dream and faith in the achievement of organizational goals of Cause, a conservative group which consists of Christian youth in the U.S. Information on demonstrations staged by activists against the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court on the case of Terri Schiavo; Response of the Cause to the assault staged by Senator Bill Frist against Democratic filibusters of antiabortion judges nominated by President George W. Bush; Role of divine intervention in their activities in Washington, D.C.

Deals with the tax rebate stipulated in the Medicare bill signed by U.S. President George W. Bush in December 2003, that will open tax-free health savings accounts. Support of conservatives for the provision; Criticisms of the tax rebate; Role of Republican campaign donor J. Patrick Rooney in making health savings accounts a reality.

Discusses the policy of the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush that prevent companies in the U.S. to do business with countries accused of sponsoring terrorism. Role of U.S. companies in the reconstruction of the oil fields in Iraq after the war; Reasons for excluding European firms in the reconstruction of Iraq; Information on companies that conduct business to countries that sponsor terrorist organizations.

Discusses the effect of name profiling on consumers in the U.S. Reason for the existence of name profiling in the U.S.; Purpose of the USA Patriot Act; Changes done by Arab Americans and Hispanics on the way that they do business in order to avoid delayed transactions.

Focuses on attempts of U.S. states to eradicate smoking. Investment of states to settle the stock of tobacco companies in the U.S.; Campaigns of states to prevent smoking; States who don't want to spend their settlement money on smoking prevention.

Presents information on weapons systems bought by the U.S. Defense Department. Stryker armored vehicle; Hercules C-130J transport plane; Predator unmanned aerial vehicle; F/A-22 raptor fighter plane.

Focuses on the role of lawyer Sohail Mohammed during the siege and interrogation of Muslim Americans in New Jersey. Development of Human Rights Education and Law Project (HELP) for Muslim Americans; Complaints of Muslim on the interrogations; Overview and advantages of HELP program.