Democracy Tested Democracy Tested
The US military was deployed, the Bush Administration tells us, to bring democracy to Iraq. But the military brass and the Administration have apparently parted company on what...
Apr 17, 2003 / Lani Guinier
Tim Robbins vs. the Baseball Hall of Fame Tim Robbins vs. the Baseball Hall of Fame
"I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport."
Apr 11, 2003 / Feature / Tim Robbins
The US vs. the UK The US vs. the UK
A comparison of media coverage of the Iraq war.
Apr 11, 2003 / Feature / Russ Baker
Hour of Media Shame Hour of Media Shame
One casualty of the war on Iraq has been the image of the Western media.
Apr 11, 2003 / Feature / Kanak Mani Dixit
A Pox on America A Pox on America
In December, when hospitals in Atlanta and Richmond announced that they were opting out of the federal smallpox vaccination plan, opinion leaders reacted as if the physicians h...
Apr 10, 2003 / Madeline Drexler
Kommissar Kristol Kommissar Kristol
William Kristol's April 7 editorial in The Weekly Standard denouncing critics of the war on Iraq as "anti-American" is startlingly reminiscent of the menacing directives issued...
Apr 10, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Firing of Peter Arnett The Firing of Peter Arnett
On March 19, shortly after Saddam Hussein defied President Bush's deadline to go into exile, Tom Brokaw of NBC broke into Law & Order, airing on the East Coast, to announce...
Apr 10, 2003 / Tom Goldstein
Yes, War Really Is Hell Yes, War Really Is Hell
The risks of war? There was the risk of being bombed if you had the misfortune to live in a neighborhood where US targeters thought Saddam Hussein might be located.
Apr 10, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Taking the Cake Taking the Cake
According to a recent Gallup Poll, 78 percent of white Americans supported invading Iraq, but only 29 percent of blacks.
Apr 10, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Telecom Labor Rising Telecom Labor Rising
Union members are making links between customers' concerns and their own.
Apr 10, 2003 / Feature / Steve Early and Larry Cohen