State Outsources Secret War State Outsources Secret War
Best known as a place where the Air Force shoots satellites into orbit, the Eastern Space and Missile Center--just south of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida's Brevard County--w...
May 23, 2001 / Feature / Jason Vest
The Jeffords Jump The Jeffords Jump
"What do we do now?" That famous last line of the 1972 film The Candidate, in which Robert Redford finds himself--to his surprise--elected to the Senate, should be on the minds of...
May 23, 2001 / David Corn
Bush’s Faustian Deal With the Taliban Bush’s Faustian Deal With the Taliban
Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-US terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush Administration will embrace you. All that matters is...
May 22, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer
Letters Letters
GREECE [heart] MACEDONIA New York City Dusko Doder's assertion, in "Balkans Breakdown" [April 30], that Greece was against the Former Yugoslav Republic ...
May 17, 2001 / Robert Alvarez, Dusko Doder, William D. Hartung, and Dimitris Gemelos
The First 2,920 Days The First 2,920 Days
I was driving my son to soccer practice not long ago, listening to a National Public Radio wrap-up of President Bush's first hundred days in office. My son, who was just a baby w...
May 17, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The FBI in Peace and War The FBI in Peace and War
The FBI knows every way To put a case in disarray. For years they managed to mislay Some tapes a Birmingham DA Could use against the KKK. Because some files had gone astray ...
May 17, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
‘Not in Our Name’ ‘Not in Our Name’
Daily life in the West Bank and Gaza: homes bulldozed, civilians bombed, people unable to get to the hospital because the borders have been closed, children shot with high-powered...
May 17, 2001 / Meredith Tax
McVeigh’s Last Message McVeigh’s Last Message
There is probably no punishment more painful to Timothy McVeigh than the great joke just played by the cosmos. In his fantasy life McVeigh has fancied himself a sort of stoic samu...
May 17, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
‘The Sound of Surprise’ ‘The Sound of Surprise’
Bright and eager, bouncy and buoyant, sharp-eyed and quick-eared and passionately in love--those are a few of the ways you could describe Calle 54, director Fernando Trueba's trib...
May 17, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Rapacious Instincts in Sudan Rapacious Instincts in Sudan
Oil companies are partners with Khartoum in waging a cruel civil war.
May 17, 2001 / Feature / Eric Reeves