Articles

Macbeth in Mesopotamia Macbeth in Mesopotamia

Concerning the impending or perhaps imminent intervention in Iraq, we now inhabit a peculiar limbo, where the military options are known while the political and moral options are n...

Aug 1, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Iraq Woos Its Neighbors Iraq Woos Its Neighbors

With the drumbeat for war on Iraq growing louder in Washington by the day, the latest United States-backed Iraqi opposition group--the Iraqi Military Alliance--was established ...

Aug 1, 2002 / Dilip Hiro

California Green Light California Green Light

Who says the good guys never win? California's new global warming law is a bona fide big deal. Signed into law by Governor Gray Davis on July 22, the global warming bill requires ...

Aug 1, 2002 / Mark Hertsgaard

9/11: The Satire 9/11: The Satire

I don't know if it's some childhood image left over from Victory at Sea or from a book of pictures my uncle brought back from the service, but when I think about the war in the Pa...

Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hal Gelb

The Rush to War The Rush to War

The American Constitution at the very beginning of the Republic sought above all to guard the country against reckless, ill-considered recourse to war. It required a declaratio...

Aug 1, 2002 / Richard Falk

Bubble Capitalism Bubble Capitalism

One bubble burst, then another and another. Enron, Global Crossing, WorldCom. The rectitude of auditors--pop. Faith in corporate CEOs and stock market analysts--pop, pop. The self...

Aug 1, 2002 / The Editors

The Church’s Tug of War The Church’s Tug of War

Women are a driving force behind reform in the Catholic Church.

Aug 1, 2002 / Feature / Angela Bonavoglia

Screening Our Politics Screening Our Politics

Like Pop-Up Video--one of the many things the movie-industry left never anticipated--ancillary factoids keep imposing themselves on Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner's Radical Hollywood:...

Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson

California’s Gray Politics California’s Gray Politics

Governer Davis may win re-election only because the GOP's Simon is such a loser.

Aug 1, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper

E(D)R For Ailing Turnout E(D)R For Ailing Turnout

After two decades of visiting political nightmares on the state--from the infamous Prop 13 to the immigrant-bashing Prop 187--California's notorious initiative and referendum syst...

Aug 1, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper

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