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A protection operative in Kabul. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
Indicating that scrutiny for private security companies is not limited to those in Iraq, authorities have plans to shut down over a dozen of them in Afghanistan.
1957: A Year That Changed America (Rob Cady/USN&WR)
We look back at a year that changed America.
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Paper Trail: At Columbia, a noose is found outside an African-American professor's office.
Capital View: Backers still clamor for Al Gore even as Fred Thompson enters the presidential sweepstakes.
Alpha Consumer: As the IRS launches random checks of returns in addition to audits, you may get a call.
Morse Code: Should the National Survey of Student Engagement data be made public?
Capital Commerce: The GOP debate was long on generalities, short on policy prescriptions.
America's Business: Shady operators' business skills can translate well to legitimate enterprises.
Michael Barone: Conservatives have made up the gap with Labor in recent polling.
As the sun rises after an all-night raid, soldiers hold a man found in a house they searched based on intelligence that an al Qaeda cell leader was sleeping there. The detained man is the brother of the suspect and was arrested and taken in for questioning. (Max Becherer--Polaris for USN&WR)
USN≀'s Alex Kingsbury goes along on a series of raids in Iraq conducted by American soldiers.
Nixon gives a televised speech on Watergate in 1973. (Marion S. Trikosko for USN&WR)
It may be too soon for historians to judge George W. Bush. But the verdict is in for past chief executives.
PHOTO ESSAY: Vermont's War. The state of Vermont, where nearly three quarters of residents oppose the Iraq war, has the nation's highest per capita death rate in the conflict. (Charlie Archambault for USN&WR) (Charlie Archambault for USN&WR)
Known for its liberal politics, the Green Mountain State pays a heavy price in Iraq.
With Americans' faith in their leaders declining, U.S. News profiles 20 people that Harvard's Center for Public Leadership identified as the nation's best.
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