The Iraq Body Count The Iraq Body Count
A new website keeping a running tally of civilian deaths in the US war against Iraq is attracting a lot of traffic and attention, and, in the process, is emerging as an authori...
Apr 1, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
‘Terror’ as the Ultimate Excuse ‘Terror’ as the Ultimate Excuse
"My own government," Martin Luther King Jr.
Apr 1, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Third-Rail Politics Third-Rail Politics
George W. Bush has raised the stakes for Election 2000 by calling for the privatization of Social Security.
Apr 1, 2003 / The Editors
Preaching the Party Line Preaching the Party Line
In the old Soviet bloc states, the official line of the ruling elites did not always come from the government itself. Often it was delivered by journalists who would amplify the p...
Mar 31, 2003 / John Nichols
The Hubris of the Neocons The Hubris of the Neocons
It took US policymakers and the American public many years, perhaps decades, to realize that hubris--arrogant and uninformed self-confidence--had played a c...
Mar 31, 2003 / David Corn
Assault on Diversity Assault on Diversity
On April 1 the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases on whether to overturn the 1978 Bakke decision and ban consideration ...
Mar 31, 2003 / Feature / Alfred Ross and Lee Cokorinos
Stanford U. and the Bush Administration Stanford U. and the Bush Administration
As student antiwar activists work to make their case against war persuasive to ambivalent classmates, the leaders of a Stanford University peace group have launched a different k...
Mar 28, 2003 / Feature / Emily Biuso
Direct Action for Peace Direct Action for Peace
The Cities for Peace campaign and numerous other antiwar groups are calling on US citizens to urgently picket, protest, lobby and employ nonviolent civil disobedience at federa...
Mar 27, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
The Rockets’ Red Glare The Rockets’ Red Glare
The fierce tableau of smoke and flames that US bombs created over Baghdad--a visual message of America's awesomely destructive power--brought to mind Shelley's meditation on an...
Mar 27, 2003 / The Editors
With the Kurds With the Kurds
I'm standing at the northern front in Chamchamal, a quarter-mile from Saddam Hussein's hilltop divisions. Before me six mounds of earth, like oversized anthills, line the ridge...
Mar 27, 2003 / Eliza Griswold