The Tenth Crusade The Tenth Crusade
Amid the elegies for the dead and the ceremonies of remembrance, seditious questions intrude: Is there really a war on terror; and if one is indeed being waged, what are its ob...
Sep 5, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
War Against Iraq: The Context War Against Iraq: The Context
The terrorism war begins to sag. The perpetrator we were meant to bag Remains at large, and wartime fervor fades. Then Bush and all his hawkish White House aides Drop sanctio...
Sep 5, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Dick Cheney’s Nightmare of Peace Dick Cheney’s Nightmare of Peace
In the dreams of Dick Cheney, to which I am not privy, I imagine there are boldly contrasting scenes of victory and despair.
Sep 4, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Hijackers I Have Known Hijackers I Have Known
I have met three hijackers in my life, and I hope I do not sound crabby and disillusioned if I add that the standard of hijacking is not what it used to be.
Aug 29, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Richard Perle: Whose Fault Is He? Richard Perle: Whose Fault Is He?
Consider kids who bullied Richard Perle-- Those kids who said Perle threw just like a girl, Those kids who poked poor Perle to show how soft A mamma's boy could be, those kids...
Aug 29, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Join the EC E-mail Campaign Join the EC E-mail Campaign
America's rate of unwanted pregnancy is a huge public health scandal, but five years after being approved by the FDA, emergency contraception--the use of normal birth control p...
Aug 29, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Business Is Safe but Baseball Strikes Out Business Is Safe but Baseball Strikes Out
Everyone, from President Bush on down, seems to agree that major league baseball players are overpaid prima donnas who don't deserve the huge paychecks they get, let alone have a...
Aug 28, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Simplistic Hunt for Evil in a Complex World Simplistic Hunt for Evil in a Complex World
Doomed by the incoherence of a foreign policy defined largely by biblical notions of the struggle between good and evil, the Bush Administration thrashes about in its hunt for th...
Aug 21, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Sour Thoughts for Dog Days Sour Thoughts for Dog Days
Let's start with Cynthia McKinney. Don't you think that if Arab-American or African-American groups targeted an incumbent white, liberal, maybe Jewish, congressperson, and ship...
Aug 15, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The Accidental Commoner The Accidental Commoner
Al Gore is a man of the people. At least, that's the case as we speak. The earth-toney Harvard elitist, Though gone, could return by next week.
Aug 15, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin