The bleakness stakes.

Profiting from paranoia with precious metals.

How a gang of right-wing con men destroyed Washington and made a killing.

How the Republican Party sews ruin on the Great Plains.

The US is currently going through the peculiar process of deciding which Democratic presidential candidate will stand against George Bush in November. The aversion to Bush, at home and abroad, makes us forget how many people support this spokesman for another America sure of its superiority and its values.