Articles

On the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Influence On the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Influence

The OSI's intent to disinform Received responses that were less than warm. The Pentagon now says it doesn't need An office just to lie and to mislead. There is, though, one f...

Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

H. Rap Brown/Jamil Al-Amin: A Profoundly American Story H. Rap Brown/Jamil Al-Amin: A Profoundly American Story

Die Nigger Die!, the autobiographical political memoir by H. Rap Brown, is a vital American historical document--historical almost in the sense of a message found in a time capsu...

Feb 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ekwueme Michael Thelwell

Justice, Not So Swift Justice, Not So Swift

On October 31 Governor Jane Swift of Massachusetts pardoned five women who had been convicted and executed in the Salem witch trials in 1692. Well, better late than never--what's...

Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Fighting Pickering Fighting Pickering

Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson says it's like this: If judicial nominee Charles Pickering is confirmed by a Democratic Senate, the Bush Administration will have a green ...

Feb 28, 2002 / John Nichols

Vouchers–Phony Choice Vouchers–Phony Choice

Ever since the 1954 Brown decision outlawing "separate but equal" schools, various popular movements have upheld a vision of public schools as essential to democracy and have dem...

Feb 28, 2002 / Barbara Miner

Press Watch Press Watch

How to Honor Pearl

Feb 28, 2002 / Michael Massing

‘Monsoon’ Season ‘Monsoon’ Season

Why, asked my friends and my baffled wife. Why, piped my son. Even the movie critics sitting next to me wanted to know: What perversity drove me to see Hart's War and Rollerball?...

Feb 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Condolences to Musharraf Condolences to Musharraf

What the Islamic fascists do, and what they believe, and what they intend, are three aspects of the same one-dimensional thing. It is ludicrous to accuse them of being untrue to th...

Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Messenger Messenger

The birds stopped coming after the annuals died. I didn't realize how much I missed them until the bluebird Returned, lured by the burgundy haze of the fall pansies Pour...

Feb 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Franklin

Biowar–Are We Ready? Biowar–Are We Ready?

Remember anthrax? The investigation into the anthrax attacks that killed five people and infected eighteen others this past fall drags on, and the FBI says it has not identified ...

Feb 28, 2002 / The Editors

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