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April 28, 2003 Issue

Tom Goldstein praises Peter Arnett, Scott Balduf worries from Afghanistan and Naomi Klein cautions against the impending privatization of Ir…

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Editorial

In Fact

PRAY FOR THE PRESIDENT

The Nation

Saving Private Lynch

It was a drama too good to miss, made for TV, if not for Hollywood.

Annette Fuentes

The War Democrats

The Democratic Leadership Council, the lost-inside-the-Beltway group that last fall championed the disastrous Democratic strategy of cozying up to the Bush Administration on...

John Nichols

A Pox on America

In December, when hospitals in Atlanta and Richmond announced that they were opting out of the federal smallpox vaccination plan, opinion leaders reacted as if the physician...

Madeline Drexler

The Firing of Peter Arnett

On March 19, shortly after Saddam Hussein defied President Bush's deadline to go into exile, Tom Brokaw of NBC broke into Law & Order, airing on the East Coast, t...

Tom Goldstein

Kommissar Kristol

William Kristol's April 7 editorial in The Weekly Standard denouncing critics of the war on Iraq as "anti-American" is startlingly reminiscent of the menacing directi...

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Unfit to Be King

He might have the toughest detail this war has to offer.

Geoffrey Gray

Sacrifice Is for Suckers

In his address to the nation on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, George W.

Robert L. Borosage

The Reckoning in Iraq

Emerging from their meeting in Belfast the day before US forces announced Baghdad had fallen, George W.

The Editors

Column

History? What History?

Allowing the looting of Iraq's museums is another indication of our contempt for the Mideast -- and our unfitness to rule it

Robert Scheer

Everything George Bush Needs to Know He Learned on the Playground

Calvin Trillin

Privatization in Disguise

On April 6, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz spelled it out: There will be no role for the United Nations in setting up an interim government in Iraq.

Naomi Klein

Taking the Cake

According to a recent Gallup Poll, 78 percent of white Americans supported invading Iraq, but only 29 percent of blacks.

Patricia J. Williams

Yes, War Really Is Hell

The risks of war? There was the risk of being bombed if you had the misfortune to live in a neighborhood where US targeters thought Saddam Hussein might be located.

Alexander Cockburn