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We’re Safe From Saddam We’re Safe From Saddam

A Joyous Song of Deliverance for Spring

May 29, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Forgetting to Laugh Forgetting to Laugh

Of all the columns I've written, never have I gotten more mail than for the following sentence: "It will not matter that the Dixie Chicks play to full, cheering houses, while t...

May 22, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Now, Gods, Stand Up for Fakers! Now, Gods, Stand Up for Fakers!

Thank God for fakers! Matchless as deflaters of human and institutional pretension, they furnish us rich measures of malicious glee at the red-faced victims.

May 22, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Thoughts of Those Who Served in George W. Bush’s Air National Guard Unit Thoughts of Those Who Served in George W. Bush’s Air National Guard Unit

When he lands on the deck in his flight suit To impress all the sailors he's greeting, It looks grand, but there's one thing we're thinking:

May 22, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Saving Private Lynch: Take 2 Saving Private Lynch: Take 2

In the 1998 film Wag the Dog, political operatives employ special editing techniques to create phony footage that will engender public sympathy for a manufactured war.

May 21, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

SARS, Sarin and WMDs SARS, Sarin and WMDs

Dear Dr. Marc,

May 21, 2003 / Column / Dr. Marc Siegel

Who Framed John Fund? Who Framed John Fund?

So the right-wing journalist John Fund may not be a model citizen, but contrary to the implications of many left journalists and gossip columnists, he's likely not the kind of ...

May 15, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman

Bah, Humbug Bah, Humbug

I wish it had been sex, maybe some of that hot "man on dog" action that Senator Rick Santorum is so keen on chatting about. But let me not be picky.

May 15, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Wal-Mart Bans Maxim, Stuff and FHM Wal-Mart Bans Maxim, Stuff and FHM

Now Wal-Mart's banned those mags for lads But so far hasn't banned the scads Of other soft-core porn on view-- Like busty dolls that do kung fu,

May 15, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The WMD Follies The WMD Follies

It turns out the threat is not from Iraq but from us.

May 13, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

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