Do you want to know what is really going on in Iraq?

Then read this email sent by a Wall Street Journal reporter to friends. The WSJ is, in case you don't know, generally well respected for its reporting, though reliably conservative. The email is eye-opening and frightening.

From Today's Times, as always, read Krugman, "America's Lost Respect."

And Bob Herbert has been doing a great job on the various measures to suppress the vote, especially the votes of African Americans. See today's "Sacrifice and Sabotage."