America’s New Anti-Imperialists America’s New Anti-Imperialists
In 1898, the Anti-Imperialist League was established to oppose America's territorial expansion, especially the "liberation" of the Philippines from Spain. Long before a Presiden...
Sep 3, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush Was All Too Willing to Use Émigrés’ Lies Bush Was All Too Willing to Use Émigrés’ Lies
American experts urged the White House to be skeptical, but they hit a stone wall.
Sep 2, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Candidates Look for the Union Label Candidates Look for the Union Label
On Labor Day, the starting point for the mad rush to this winter's Democratic presidential caucuses and primaries, several of the Democratic contenders could point to support they...
Sep 1, 2003 / John Nichols
Bull’s Eye Bull’s Eye
This was the summer when the movies were so bad, people were reduced to complaining about a Mel Gibson film they hadn't seen.
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Regarding the Pain of Others Regarding the Pain of Others
In Plato's Republic, Socrates illustrates his theory of the parts of the soul with the story of Leontius, who saw some corpses rotting outside the walls of Athens and was torn ...
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Swing Time for Hitler Swing Time for Hitler
It is of some small comfort that totalitarian regimes are never quite as total as either their leaders or subsequent historians might imagine.
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton
The Life of the Party The Life of the Party
Interesting Times is a curiously feeble title for an autobiography, rather as if Noam Chomsky were to write an article called "Could America Do Better?" It carries, of co...
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton
Labor Fights for Rights Labor Fights for Rights
Workers have lost the right to organize. A new effort aims to get it back.
Aug 28, 2003 / Feature / David Moberg
Where’s the Compassion? Where’s the Compassion?
Bush's "compassionate conservatism" is a deft--and dishonest--strategy.
Aug 28, 2003 / Feature / Joe Conason
Ignited Iraq Ignited Iraq
An imperial errand is not so hard to begin, not so easy to complete.
Aug 28, 2003 / Feature / Peter Davis