We examine security issues in the “War on Terror,” including a particularly troubling lack of security at Penn Station in New York City, issues of border control, and the reliability of news coverage.

Finally, we examine the ways in which concerns with security trump the ability of students to procure study visas.

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Contributing reporters include Jon Stott, Maria Marcia, Alan Smith, Wren Elhai, Becket Flannery, Amelia Templeton, and Ariana Nash.

We talk to journalists in Lebanon and Italy about reactions on the ground in the two countries to some of today’s headlines.

Also, Eva Barboni delves into the issue of civilian, Iraqi body counts.

Finally, Rozina Ali speaks to a Swarthmore College linguistics professor, who recently returned from Iran.

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Anne Kolker chats with a pair of members of the British House of Commons and finds that, though they share a party, they don’t see eye to eye on the war in Iraq.

Then, Wren Elhai considers how American tax dollars are now being used to provide financial support to those who say they want to bring democracy to Egypt.

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Tev Kelman brings us voices from both sides of the checkpoints in Iraq.

We also hear from reporters who were embedded with the U.S. military in Iraq, and we explore the complications with this form of journalism.

Finally, we investigate how the cultural divide between the United States and the Arab world is expressed through music.

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Beth Redden takes a look at American poets who are putting their pens to work in order to express their views on the war in Iraq.

Then, Rozina Ali speaks with three Afghani women with strong views on life in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban.

We also hear from an American mother who tried to convince her son not to join the Marines after high school, only to see him join, serve and die in Iraq.

And in our Arab News Watch, Bernadette Baird-Zars compares what is and isn’t highlighted between two Israeli news outlets.

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While millions of Americans stress over their tax forms, a few have decided not to file for moral reasons. Maria Macia speaks with folks who don’t want their money being used to finance a war.

Also, Mat Louis-Rosenberg delves into the case against government contractor Custer Battles (the name’s no joke). It’s a story with all the twists and turns of a John Grisham thriller. Death threats, graft, dueling lawyers and more.

Finally, Catharine Parnell takes us to the opium poppy fields of Afghanistan. Despite efforts to eradicate this illicit crop, drug production levels are higher than before the US intervened. What sort of an ally is Afghanistan when its economy is so reliant on the drug trade?

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