Chickens in a Darkening Sky Chickens in a Darkening Sky
Suddenly the sky is dark with chickens coming home to roost, and bedtime reading is Thucydides' account of the disastrous Athenian siege of Syracuse.
Mar 27, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
On Richard Perle, Lobbyist, Businessman And, Perhaps Not Coincidentally, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board On Richard Perle, Lobbyist, Businessman And, Perhaps Not Coincidentally, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board
The plans to start this war were laid Within the Sissy Hawk Brigade-- A band of Vietnam evaders All puffed up now as tough crusaders.
Mar 27, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
On White Preferences On White Preferences
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases on April 1.
Mar 27, 2003 / Jay Rosner
CNN–War Casualty CNN–War Casualty
You could have knocked CNN's Aaron Brown over with a feather.
Mar 27, 2003 / Susan J. Douglas
Bush and God Bush and God
Not since Jimmy Carter's confession that he had lusted in his heart after women other than his wife have Americans been so interested in the religious life of the man occupying...
Mar 27, 2003 / Randall Balmer
Shocks to the Constitution Shocks to the Constitution
Spring officially began on Thursday, March 20, but the first real spring day in Washington was Saturday, a blindingly sunny day, flowers just beginning to peek out, the Nationa...
Mar 27, 2003 / David Cole
The Road to Peace The Road to Peace
Many pundits predicted that the peace movement would dry up once war began, and indeed polls show that American support for the war rose to as high as 71 percent after its laun...
Mar 27, 2003 / Liza Featherstone
With the Kurds With the Kurds
I'm standing at the northern front in Chamchamal, a quarter-mile from Saddam Hussein's hilltop divisions. Before me six mounds of earth, like oversized anthills, line the ridge...
Mar 27, 2003 / Eliza Griswold
The Rockets’ Red Glare The Rockets’ Red Glare
The fierce tableau of smoke and flames that US bombs created over Baghdad--a visual message of America's awesomely destructive power--brought to mind Shelley's meditation on an...
Mar 27, 2003 / The Editors
Postwar Democracy? Iraq is a Hard Place Postwar Democracy? Iraq is a Hard Place
The angry guy with the shoe. Those who have been watching the war on television are familiar with the video footage: after the US military took cont...
Mar 26, 2003 / David Corn