Now, Gods, Stand Up for Fakers! Now, Gods, Stand Up for Fakers!
Thank God for fakers! Matchless as deflaters of human and institutional pretension, they furnish us rich measures of malicious glee at the red-faced victims.
May 22, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Thoughts of Those Who Served in George W. Bush’s Air National Guard Unit Thoughts of Those Who Served in George W. Bush’s Air National Guard Unit
When he lands on the deck in his flight suit To impress all the sailors he's greeting, It looks grand, but there's one thing we're thinking:
May 22, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
An Energy/Jobs Program An Energy/Jobs Program
America needs jobs, and working families are hurting. At the same time, the war in Iraq has heightened awareness of our dependence on foreign oil and the vulnerability of our e...
May 22, 2003 / Bracken Hendricks
Guantánamo Gulag Guantánamo Gulag
Whatever happened to the "worst of the worst"?
May 22, 2003 / David Cole
Building to Win Building to Win
These are dog days for Democrats. The top-gun President continues to ride high in the polls, despite the chaos in Iraq.
May 22, 2003 / Robert L. Borosage
Losing Iraq? Losing Iraq?
Clarification: George W. Bush's proclamation of Al Qaeda as "not a problem anymore" was a reference to top Al Qaeda operatives, not the entire organization. (06/04/03)
May 22, 2003 / The Editors
FCC Travels on Industry’s Dime FCC Travels on Industry’s Dime
With the June 2 vote by the Federal Communications Commission on a series of rule changes that would dramatically reshape the nation's media landscape rapidly approaching, it is a...
May 22, 2003 / John Nichols
Saving Private Lynch: Take 2 Saving Private Lynch: Take 2
In the 1998 film Wag the Dog, political operatives employ special editing techniques to create phony footage that will engender public sympathy for a manufactured war.
May 21, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer