Society

The Shame of Boxing The Shame of Boxing

The fighters are powerless workers in need of rights and justice.

Oct 25, 2001 / Feature / Jack Newfield

Letter From Ground Zero: October 25, 2011 Letter From Ground Zero: October 25, 2011

We've reached a new brink.

Oct 25, 2001 / Jonathan Schell

Information Lockdown Information Lockdown

Viewers of the old spy spoof Get Smart will remember the Cone of Silence--that giant plastic hair-salon dryer that descended over Maxwell Smart and Control when they held a sensit...

Oct 25, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro

US Bows to Turkey US Bows to Turkey

Alongside the White House and the Capitol building on the alleged terrorist hit list for September 11 was another, little-noticed target: Incirlik, a US airbase in southern Turkey...

Oct 25, 2001 / Ian Urbina

Big Pharma’s Payoff Big Pharma’s Payoff

Talk about good times for Washington's mercenary culture. Even as officials scrambled to explain why they had not acted more quickly to protect postal workers from anthrax contami...

Oct 25, 2001 / The Editors

A True Patriot Can Pose Hard Questions A True Patriot Can Pose Hard Questions

War skeptics such as Richard Gere, Susan Sontag, Rep.

Oct 23, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer

Profiles in Cowardice Profiles in Cowardice

My three favorite media stories in recent weeks were how Bill "Politically Incorrect" Maher kept his job at ABC-TV, how Ann Coulter got herself fired from National Review and how ...

Oct 18, 2001 / Victor Navasky

Indict Pinochet Indict Pinochet

It's been three years since Gen. Augusto Pinochet was detained in London under the European Anti-Terrorism Convention for crimes that included terrorist atrocities. If George W. B...

Oct 18, 2001 / The Editors

Mugging the ICC Mugging the ICC

While the United States has spent the past few weeks imploring other countries to cooperate with our war on terrorism, behind the scenes it's apparently retaining an isolationist ...

Oct 18, 2001 / Daphne Eviatar

Court Time for Henry Court Time for Henry

Although it may appear that the aftershocks of September 11 have somewhat deposed the discourse of human rights and international law and replaced it with that of law and order, th...

Oct 18, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

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