From a NY Times story entitled Free to Protest, Iraqis Complain About the U.S., Iraqis are free to speak out against the American presence in their country without the worry of being jailed for protesting, as was the case before the U.S. invasion.

Since I’m a daily reader, I also noted that NY Times articles no longer have the left nav—the pages look cleaner and instead they have a breadcrumb strip at the top and a dropdown to jump to sections of the newspaper. This move puts less visual noise down by the article you’re reading, and the entire article pages are completely void of ads—nice while it lasts.

UPDATE: That lasted about 8 minutes before ads started appearing on every article page.

Here’s an article on breadcrumbs:
Breadcrumb Navigation: An Exploratory Study of Usage which says that while breadcrumbs may be useful for telling users where they are in a site, are not clicked very often. The back button still reigns.