The Rush to War The Rush to War
The American Constitution at the very beginning of the Republic sought above all to guard the country against reckless, ill-considered recourse to war. It required a declaratio...
Aug 1, 2002 / Richard Falk
9/11: The Satire 9/11: The Satire
I don't know if it's some childhood image left over from Victory at Sea or from a book of pictures my uncle brought back from the service, but when I think about the war in the Pa...
Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hal Gelb
California Green Light California Green Light
Who says the good guys never win? California's new global warming law is a bona fide big deal. Signed into law by Governor Gray Davis on July 22, the global warming bill requires ...
Aug 1, 2002 / Mark Hertsgaard
Iraq Woos Its Neighbors Iraq Woos Its Neighbors
With the drumbeat for war on Iraq growing louder in Washington by the day, the latest United States-backed Iraqi opposition group--the Iraqi Military Alliance--was established ...
Aug 1, 2002 / Dilip Hiro
Macbeth in Mesopotamia Macbeth in Mesopotamia
Concerning the impending or perhaps imminent intervention in Iraq, we now inhabit a peculiar limbo, where the military options are known while the political and moral options are n...
Aug 1, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
In Fact… In Fact…
ELITE ONLY NEED APPLY The story made the front page of the New York Times and other papers. The director of admissions at Princeton was caught sneaking into a special website set...
Aug 1, 2002 / The Editors
Robinson Crusoe, Move Over Robinson Crusoe, Move Over
If Canadian writer Yann Martel were a preacher, he'd be charismatic, funny and convert all the nonbelievers. He baits his readers with serious themes and trawls them through a sea...
Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Charlotte Innes
Handicapping the Crippled Handicapping the Crippled
More than thirty years ago, in an essay called "Uncle Tom and Tiny Tim: Some Reflections on the Cripple as Negro," I suggested that cripples emulate the civil rights movement by f...
Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Leonard Kriegel
Aboard Reich’s Reform Express Aboard Reich’s Reform Express
The former Labor Secretary is a top gubernatorial contender in Massachusetts.
Aug 1, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols
Israel, There and Here Israel, There and Here
Refugee camp invasions. Suicide bombers. House demolitions. Suicide bombers. Arrests of children, curfews, roadblocks, collective punishments, dropping one-ton bombs on densely...
Aug 1, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt