Tuesday’s interesting opinions and ideas:

Sonni Efron:The twisted saga of Chechnya's Che
Shamil Basayev started out as a rebel but turned into a monster in his desperate struggle against Moscow.

Joel Stein: Doped-up cyclers don't bug me
What's so wrong with performance-enhancing drugs if everyone's doing them?

Ricardo Pollack: Deadly homeboys make a new home in El Salvador
The country once again becomes a killing field thanks to U.S. deportees.

Editorials

New rules for Gitmo
The Supreme Court's Hamdan ruling gives Congress an opportunity to do its job on military tribunals.

How clean do we want politics to be?
Publicly financed elections sound nice, but political campaigns usually find ways to evade the rules.

You can't cut the sex and violence
A Colorado judge rightly rules that companies can't sell or rent sanitized versions of movies.