FCC Travels on Industry’s Dime FCC Travels on Industry’s Dime
With the June 2 vote by the Federal Communications Commission on a series of rule changes that would dramatically reshape the nation's media landscape rapidly approaching, it is a...
May 22, 2003 / John Nichols
Saving Private Lynch: Take 2 Saving Private Lynch: Take 2
In the 1998 film Wag the Dog, political operatives employ special editing techniques to create phony footage that will engender public sympathy for a manufactured war.
May 21, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Memo to Dems: Passion & Principles Matter Memo to Dems: Passion & Principles Matter
At a forum in Iowa this past Saturday, organized by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, most of the Dems angling for their party's nomination finall...
May 20, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Are We Safer? Are We Safer?
This article is an expanded version of Stephen F. Cohen's commentary in the May 5 issue.
May 19, 2003 / Stephen F. Cohen
‘America Off Our Soil!’ ‘America Off Our Soil!’
Asian and the Arab protesters continue to call for a boycott of American goods.
May 19, 2003 / Feature / Miranda Kennedy
Looking Like America Looking Like America
While the Administration denies media reports that it has given US forces in Iraq the go-ahead to shoot looters on sight, Donald Rumsfeld, testifying last week before the Senate ...
May 19, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Pre-empting Protest Pre-empting Protest
The Peace Corps is feeling the fallout from Bush Administration policies.
May 16, 2003 / Feature / Sasha Polakow-Suransky