The Empire Strikes Back The Empire Strikes Back
A few years in Washington, DC, snake-oil capital of the universe, and you begin to think that anything can be packaged as something else. Well, almost anything.
Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Anatol Lieven
Labor’s Health Problem Labor’s Health Problem
While fighting givebacks, unions can't lose sight of the big healthcare picture.
Jun 19, 2003 / Feature / Steve Early
The Press and Private Lynch The Press and Private Lynch
The Pentagon was selling a patriotic tale. It found many eager buyers.
Jun 19, 2003 / Feature / Daphne Eviatar
Probing 9/11 Probing 9/11
A bipartisan commission is at work, but how tough it will be is still unknown.
Jun 19, 2003 / Feature / David Corn
The Other Japanese Occupation The Other Japanese Occupation
When Tokyo took over Manchuria, its propagandists spoke of "liberation."
Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / John W. Dower
First Chronicles First Chronicles
With street fighting prevailing, Paul Bremer, the American administrator in Iraq, recently trotted out a new "two-sided approach," according to the New York Times.
Jun 19, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
My Life as a Rabbi My Life as a Rabbi
Inviting me to a recent wedding in Virginia, the proud parents asked if I would do some sort of officiation.
Jun 19, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
Robert Kaplan is a hugely well-informed, indefatigable journalist who combines firsthand reporting, mostly from poor, badly governed or ungoverned countries, with wide reading ...
Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
The Ballad of Private Lynch The Ballad of Private Lynch
Preferring death to getting caught, She emptied weapons as she fought. Though shot and stabbed she didn't flinch. She battled on, did Private Lynch. Or did she?
Jun 19, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Privatizing Medicare Privatizing Medicare
The Medicare bills passed by the Senate Finance Committee on June 12 and the House Ways and Means Committee on June 17 move the thirty-eight-year-old social insurance program o...
Jun 19, 2003 / Trudy Lieberman