• Remembering the Dead: Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
  Iran-Contra, the Nuclear Race and Covert Wars from Central America to Africa
• Noam Chomsky on Reagan's Legacy: Bush Has Resurrected "The Most Extremist, Arrogant, Violent and Dangerous Elements" of Reagan's White House
  Central America and the Iran-Contra Scandal
  The 8 years Reagan was in office represented one of the most bloody eras in the history of the Western hemisphere, as Washington funneled money, weapons and other supplies to right wing death squads. And the death toll was staggering - more than 70,000 political killings in El Salvador, more than 100,000 in Guatemala, 30,000 killed in the contra war in Nicaragua. In Washington, the forces carrying out the violence were called "freedom fighters." Reagan described the Contras in Nicaragua as, "our brothers, these freedom fighters and we owe them our help. They are the moral equal of our founding fathers."
• Remembering the Dead: Reagan Foreign Policy From the Target End
• Robert Parry On What the Corporate Media Forgot: The Reagan Administration's Manipulation of Intelligence and Exaggeration of Threats
• "Reagan Was the Butcher of My People:" Fr. Miguel D'Escoto Speaks From Nicaragua
• Congressional Medal of Honor Winner: Reagan Was "An Accomplice to the Death of Literally Thousands and Thousands of People"
• Journalist Allan Nairn: Reagan Was Behind "One Of The Most Intensive Campaigns Of Mass Murder In Recent History"
  The Middle East
  The policies of the Reagan administration in the Middle East, specifically during the Iran-Iraq war, fueled one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern times in which more than a million people were killed. Chemical weapons were used and two of the most ancient societies on earth were devastated. During Reagan's years in power, the U.S.armed Iran and normalized relations with Iraq, selling weapons to both sides of the conflict.
• Remembering the Dead: Reagan Armed Iraq and Iran in 1980s War That Killed Over 1 Million
• Nobel Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi: "The Same People That Gave Saddam Hussein Chemicals to Make These Weapons Used it as an Excuse To Attack Him"
• The Reagan-Saddam Connection: "We Create These Monsters And When It's Not Convenient We Cover Them Up" FLASHBACK: The Reagan-Saddam Connection
  Afghanistan and the Roots of 9/11
  During Reagan's 8 years in power, the CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid to Afghanistan to support the mujahedeen - or holy warriors - against the Soviet Union, which had invaded in 1979. The U.S.-supported jihad succeeded in driving out the Soviets but the Afghan factions allied to the US gave rise to the oppressive Taliban and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda.
• Ghost Wars: Reagan Armed the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan
  The U.S. Invasion of Grenada
  On October 25, 1983, the United States invaded the small Caribbean nation of Grenada. The fiery leftist President Maurice Bishop had been assassinated days earlier. When U.S. forces moved in they landed at the airport, and killed more than a dozen Cubans and more than 40 Grenadian soldiers. The U.S. quickly consolidated its occupation of the island and expanded its force to more than 7,000. By December a pro-American government was established.
• Remembering Reagan's Invasion of Grenada
  South Africa
  The dominant view is that the US was on the right side in South Africa, that it opposed apartheid. But nothing could be further from the truth, particularly when Reagan was president. Reagan labeled Mandela's African National Congress a notorious terrorist organization, while continuing Washington's support for the apartheid regime.
• Allied with Apartheid: Reagan Supported Racist South African Gvt
  The Nuclear Race
  
• Helen Caldicott on the Nuclear Race: Reagan Was the "Pied Piper of Armageddon"
  
  AIDS
  Following the discovery of the first cases of AIDS in 1981, it soon became clear a national health crisis was developing. Scientists, researchers and health care professionals at every level expressed the need for funding but the Reagan White House remained silent on the subject for years while thousands of Americans were dying from the disease.
• Ignoring AIDS: The Reagan Years
  Race
  After taking office in 1981, Reagan began a sustained attack on the government's civil rights apparatus, opened an assault on affirmative action and social welfare programs, embraced the White racist leaders of then-apartheid South Africa and waged war on the tiny, Black Caribbean nation of Grenada.
• Reagan and Race: "He Maintained A System Of Rich And Poor, A System Of Black And White"
  Homelessness
  Under Reagan, the number of homeless people went from something so little it wasn't even written about widely in the late 1970s to more than 2 million when Reagan left office. Homeless rights activists say the single most devastating thing Reagan did to create homelessness was when he cut the budget for the Department of Housing and Urban Development and overhaul tax codes to reduce incentives for private developers and low-income homes creating a major crisis for low-income families and individuals.
• Reagan and the Homeless Epidemic in America
  Class and Organized Labor
  Many critics view Reagan's administration as one of the worst in history for organized labor. After a prohibited strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, Reagan fired more than eleven thousand air traffic controllers, jailed strike leaders and ultimately abolished the union, paving the way for a crackdown on organized labor.
• Reagan, Class and Organized Labor: "One Of The Most Damaging Presidents In American History"

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Slate weighs in on Reagan's death:
"Ron and Mikhail's Excellent Adventure: How Reagan won the Cold War" by Fred Kaplan, posted June 9, 2004
"Reagan's Osama Connection: How he turned a jihadist into a terrorist kingpin," by Fred Kaplan, posted June 10, 2004
"The Man, the Myths: Don't believe everything you hear about Ronald Reagan," by David Greenberg, posted June 9.
"Not Even a Hedgehog: The stupidity of Ronald Reagan," by Christopher Hitchens, posted June 7, 2004
"Never a Gray Moment: The international press looks at Ronald Reagan," by Michael Young, posted June 7, 2004
"What Reagan Got Wrong: Liberty is not the absence of government," by William Saletan, posted June 6, 2004
"Ronald Reagan, Party Animal: The man who taught Republicans to be irresponsible," by Timothy Noah, posted June 5, 2004

Slate evaluates Reaganomics:
"Reagan vs. Clinton: Who was responsible for the prosperity of the '90s?" by Dinesh D'Souza and E.J. Dionne, posted November 1997
"Credit Check: Now it's really morning in America. Who deserves a bow?" by Jacob Weisberg, posted Aug. 31, 1997

Slate on the rest of Reagan's record:
"Reagan's Record: Sorry to spoil the birthday party, but …" by Michael Kinsley, posted Feb. 9, 2001
"Reagan's Record II: Did he win the Cold War?" by Michael Kinsley, posted Feb. 16, 2001

Slate on how we remember him:
"Everybody Loves Reagan: How a divisive president became an American Idol," by David Greenberg, posted Nov. 13, 2003
"Saint Ronald: Why must we pretend the 40^th president was alert and engaged?" by Timothy Noah, posted Nov. 5, 2003
"Saint Ronald, Part 2: Richard Pipes' new memoir adds ballast to CBS's miniseries," by Timothy Noah, posted Nov. 6, 2003