The Life of the Party The Life of the Party
Interesting Times is a curiously feeble title for an autobiography, rather as if Noam Chomsky were to write an article called "Could America Do Better?" It carries, of co...
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton
Labor Fights for Rights Labor Fights for Rights
Workers have lost the right to organize. A new effort aims to get it back.
Aug 28, 2003 / Feature / David Moberg
Where’s the Compassion? Where’s the Compassion?
Bush's "compassionate conservatism" is a deft--and dishonest--strategy.
Aug 28, 2003 / Feature / Joe Conason
Ignited Iraq Ignited Iraq
An imperial errand is not so hard to begin, not so easy to complete.
Aug 28, 2003 / Feature / Peter Davis
Handmaid in Babylon: The UN’s Decline and Fall Handmaid in Babylon: The UN’s Decline and Fall
"One has to be careful," said United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in late August, "not to confuse the UN with the US." If the Secretary General had taken his own advice...
Aug 28, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Just Wait Just Wait
The White House said, although it wasn't true, Iraq must be invaded, PDQ, Since terrorists, who'd caught us unaware, Were with Iraq, and always gathered there.
Aug 28, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
In the Stars In the Stars
This essay was one of the winners out of a pool of 290 entries in a recent writing contest sponsored by Women's WORLD, the Nation Institute and the Puffin Foundation designed to br...
Aug 28, 2003 / Monica Arac de Nyeko
Women’s Voices Women’s Voices
Through the corporate media's electronic collage of murders, sex scandals, celebrity sightings and Pentagon-generated fantasy can be heard a constant buzz--"war, terror, securi...
Aug 28, 2003 / Meredith Tax
Lessons of the Blackout Lessons of the Blackout
Watch for William Greider's forthcoming book The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy, due in bookstores in early September. Click here for info on the book and or...
Aug 28, 2003 / William Greider
Kathy Boudin’s Time Kathy Boudin’s Time
Kathy Boudin's parole from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility after twenty-two years is welcome and overdue.
Aug 28, 2003 / The Editors