Is Bush’s War in Iraq A “Brain Fart”? Is Bush’s War in Iraq A “Brain Fart”?
Did retired General Anthony Zinni really call George W. Bush's war in Iraq a "brain fart"? That seems to be the case. But first, some background. On...
Sep 26, 2003 / David Corn
Putin’s War Putin’s War
There's been scant notice of refugees being brutally driven out of Chechnya.
Sep 25, 2003 / Feature / Matt Bivens
Against Blind Imperial Arrogance Against Blind Imperial Arrogance
Edward Said closed one of his last published essays with the lines: "We are in for many more years of turmoil and misery in the Middle East, where one of the main problems is, to ...
Sep 25, 2003 / John Nichols
Truth, Fear and War Truth, Fear and War
The Women Legislators Lobby (WiLL) is a professional organization of state legislators formed in 1990 as a program of WAND (Women's Action for New Directions). WAND's mission is t...
Sep 25, 2003 / Feature / Helen Thomas
Ancestors Ancestors
They are bicycling into the sun. He has a dhoti on under his coat and a briefcase with LYRIC marked in big letters.
Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Meena Alexander
French Connections French Connections
The setting is a one-room schoolhouse, which is momentarily unoccupied except for a pair of turtles.
Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Savage Modernism Savage Modernism
A refugee from Nazism and a distinguished New York psychoanalyst, Sandor Rado had thought long and deeply about Hitler's takeover of Germany. Years ago, the writer Otto Friedri...
Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
The Gray Zone The Gray Zone
On a hot, dusty summer day in 1998, I drove with friends from Smolensk to the village of Zagor'e to meet Ivan Tvardovsky, a survivor of Stalin's forced-labor camps and the brot...
Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Lynne Viola
Letter From Iran Letter From Iran
Hope has turned to bitterness as reform efforts have been crushed by the regime.
Sep 25, 2003 / Feature / Afshin Molavi