The Vision Primary The Vision Primary
The presidential contest has begun, as usual, with the "money primary," in which major donors choose their favorites and weed out other candidates, long before any citizen has ...
Mar 13, 2003 / The Editors
Military Globalism Military Globalism
One of the first casualties of war may be those happy-talk forecasts of a robust recovery once the bombing starts in Iraq, but a far more momentous economic question accompanie...
Mar 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / William Greider
Selling the War on TV Selling the War on TV
Let's say you have a war to sell. You have the usual public relations tools at your disposal: highly scripted press conferences, stories leaked by White House officials to a co...
Mar 13, 2003 / Susan J. Douglas
Dissent and Basketball Dissent and Basketball
During the Vietnam War the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, Muhammad Ali, refused to serve in the Army.
Mar 13, 2003 / Murray Polner
Nation Notes Nation Notes
That Fox News Channel advertisement on the back cover is not a parody. We know it's hard to believe, but it's a real ad, and they paid good money to run it, too.
Mar 13, 2003 / The Editors
Dissent and Disconnects Dissent and Disconnects
History was made on February 27 when for the first time Big Labor formally broke with a sitting President's war policy.
Mar 6, 2003 / The Editors
Caldron in Northern Iraq Caldron in Northern Iraq
Charles Glass covered the Kurdish rebellion in northern Iraq for ABC News in 1991.
Mar 6, 2003 / Charles Glass
Rising Danger in Korea Rising Danger in Korea
Bruce Cumings's book Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations has recently appeared in paperback (Duke) and contains an extended analysis of the first nuclea...
Mar 6, 2003 / Bruce Cumings
Washington Post Warriors Washington Post Warriors
A generation ago, when I worked at the Washington Post, the right-wing fringe occasionally referred to us as "Pravda on the Potomac." We reporters were amused but also rankled.
Mar 6, 2003 / William Greider
Donahue–War Casualty Donahue–War Casualty
War may or may not be inevitable, but a one-sided discussion of US policy toward Iraq appears to be all but guaranteed on network television.
Mar 6, 2003 / John Nichols