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(Statistics about civilian casualties in Iraq are confusing and all over the place. A Times Op-Ed conflicts with a front-page story. The Public Editor looks into the numbers, how they are assembled and interpreted)

(Column of letters from readers published in the printed newspaper)

(FAIR fires back, introducing a new error. Passions over the war in Iraq are high, but facts are facts)

(The Times publishes graphic photos of dead and injured American soldiers in Iraq, and the military reacts with fury. What is the right thing to do?)

(The Times runs an advertisement from MoveOn.org attacking the American commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, with a headline that asks if he's General Betray Us. The ad violated both Times standards for civility and rules against discounts for partisan ads by political action committees)

(The Times gives front-page play to the former top U.S. military commander in Iraq criticizing the Bush administration's "incompetent" management of the war. But the paper fails to mention his equally blistering assessment of the news media's coverage of the war. The paper should have covered those comments, fact-checked them and put them in context)

(As skepticism over the war in Iraq increases, President Bush and the U.S. military increasingly point to only one foe on the battlefield: Al Qaeda. The truth is much more complex, but singling out Al Qaeda, which attacked the World Trade Center on 9/11, is an effort to rally support. The Times has slipped too often into adopting administration language without questioning its accuracy)