Bush visited Iraq before. He served Thanksgiving dinner to troops in Baghdad in late 2003. He met then new Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki in 2006. And in 2007, he visited Anbar province, once the bulwark of Saddam Hussein. Recently, he sprang a surprise visit cum farewell visit to the country that is almost synonymous [...]

Photojournalist Tim Hetherington’s gritty photographs of soldiers showcase the futility of war at all levels. The images will be published by Umbrage next spring in a book entitled ‘Long Story Bit by Bit.’ The story of war, indeed, is a long shadow in the individual memories and collective consciousness of those who find themselves in [...]