Boodle & Airline Security Boodle & Airline Security
The attacks of September 11 have not only exposed the failures of our intelligence apparatus and the "blowback" problem of US foreign policy. They have also stripped bare how one ...
Oct 11, 2001 / Micah L. Sifry
Letter From Ground Zero: October 11, 2001 Letter From Ground Zero: October 11, 2001
Annihilation and the Ways of Peace
Oct 11, 2001 / Jonathan Schell
Press Watch Press Watch
The press conference that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld held shortly after the United States began bombing Afghanistan on October 7 was painful to behold. The questions posed ...
Oct 11, 2001 / Michael Massing
New War, Old Weapons New War, Old Weapons
President Bush has stated that his global campaign against terrorism will be a "new kind of war," in which traditional military approaches will give way to a more innovative mix o...
Oct 11, 2001 / William D. Hartung
The Limits of War The Limits of War
The war in Afghanistan, coming after the atrocities of September 11, provokes a welter of contradictory emotions. On the one side, a desire for justice and a yearning for security...
Oct 11, 2001 / The Editors
The Crash The Crash
The new war on terror isn't going to be of much use in combating the present plunge in America's well-being. Well before the twin towers fell to earth the country was entering a ...
Oct 11, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Patriot Games Patriot Games
Patriotism requires no apologies. Like anti-Communism and anti-Fascism, it is an admirable and thoroughly sensible a priori assumption from which to begin making more nuanced jud...
Oct 11, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Dry Up the Pools of Discontent Dry Up the Pools of Discontent
The bombing part is easy. Not of course on the civilians, the "collateral damage" likely to be killed in unseemly large numbers, as they were during the Gulf War.
Oct 10, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer
Code of Misconduct Code of Misconduct
Michael Ignatieff has written eloquently from some very cruel places--Rwanda, Bosnia, Afghanistan.
Oct 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Erika Munk
Fate and Fundamentalism Fate and Fundamentalism
The distinguishing feature of most fundamentalist belief systems is a literal conception of the relation between words and meaning.
Oct 9, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams