Looting and Conquest Looting and Conquest
US troops transformed the ancient site of Ur into a base, even digging trenches into the ground.
May 14, 2003 / Feature / Zainab Bahrani
Left Coast Notes Left Coast Notes
Several staggered rows of grayish papier-mâum;ché headstones have sprouted on the grassy quad of Santa Monica College--the crown jewel of Southern California's once e...
May 9, 2003 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Hubris Unbound Hubris Unbound
See also Tim Shorrock's March 2002 story for The Nation on the Carlyle Group.
May 8, 2003 / Feature / Tim Shorrock
Letter From Silicon Valley Letter From Silicon Valley
As unemployment soars, many workers are rethinking their libertarian views.
May 8, 2003 / Feature / Rebecca Vesely
Bringing the War Home Bringing the War Home
In the name of fighting terrorism, the Army has established a domestic command.
May 8, 2003 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
Samaritans in the Desert Samaritans in the Desert
Defying US policy, they save the lives of illegal migrants, a cup of water at a time.
Why We Are Infidels Why We Are Infidels
Fundamentalists are offended when there is no officially sanctioned path to salvation.
May 8, 2003 / Feature / E.L. Doctorow
The Unconquerable World The Unconquerable World
Violence, Hannah Arendt said, destroys power. The United States is moving quickly down this path.
May 6, 2003 / Feature / Jonathan Schell
Brezhnev, Bush and Baghdad Brezhnev, Bush and Baghdad
Many Russians who fled Brezhnev's USSR because they could not speak freely are in a state of shock in today's America. One is Roman Kaplan, an intellectual from Leningrad (now ...
May 5, 2003 / Feature / Nina Khrushcheva
Labor’s Cold War Labor’s Cold War
Freshly unearthed documents may force the AFL-CIO to face up to past betrayals.
May 1, 2003 / Feature / Tim Shorrock