Profiting from War Profiting from War
Shortly after the US conquered Baghdad, the US Defense Intelligence Agency distributed a now famous deck of cards bearing the images of "Iraq's Most Wanted." This hit list of top...
May 23, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
‘The Truth Will Emerge’ ‘The Truth Will Emerge’
Truth has a way of asserting itself despite all attempts to obscure it. Distortion only serves to derail it for a time.
May 22, 2003 / Senator Robert C. Byrd
A Race With No Winners A Race With No Winners
After weeks of searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, there's still no trace of the fearsome arsenal the Administration advertised. Back in the US, however, the Bush ...
May 22, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Tales of the Texas Border Tales of the Texas Border
They're back now, but Texas's few living elected Democrats, who fled to Oklahoma pursued by minions of the law, are said to remain unrepentant. The proximate cause was a redist...
May 22, 2003 / Feature / Molly Ivins
Medium Cool Medium Cool
In the film from which there is no escape and no going back, The Matrix, the writer-director team of Andy and Larry Wachowski presented a grim choice between truth and illusion...
May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Fight Club Fight Club
Writing may be fighting, as Ishmael Reed famously opined, but most writers know the difference. There are, of course, some who blur the line.
May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz
She’s So Heavy She’s So Heavy
In 1981 Carolyn Forché published a slim collection of verse, her second, titled The Country Between Us.
May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Meghan O’Rourke
Sex and the City Sex and the City
From the mid to the late 1920s, the German painter Christian Schad produced a group of paintings like little else in modern art.
May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Road Map or Road Kill? Road Map or Road Kill?
The chief flaw of this plan is its failure to focus on the Israeli occupation.
May 22, 2003 / Feature / Rashid Khalidi
On the Road (Map) On the Road (Map)
Rejectionists on both sides are trying to undermine the fledgling initiative.
May 22, 2003 / Feature / Hillel Schenker