Wrestling With Augie March Wrestling With Augie March
Editor's Note: With Leonard Kriegel's meditation on Saul Bellow's 1953 novel The Adventures of Augie March, we introduce a series of occasional essays revisiting classic works of l...
Jun 5, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Leonard Kriegel
The Believer The Believer
A reader knowing nothing of the 1990s might well come away from Sidney Blumenthal's lengthy account of The Clinton Wars with the impression that for eight years, Bill and Hilla...
Jun 5, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Tom Wicker
‘Scoops’ and Truth at the Times ‘Scoops’ and Truth at the Times
What happens when Pentagon objectives and journalists' needs coincide.
Jun 5, 2003 / Feature / Russ Baker
On Mediocrity’s Cutting Edge On Mediocrity’s Cutting Edge
New Jersey: a vegetable patch and spare bedroom for the big cities on either side.
Selling (Off) Iraq Selling (Off) Iraq
How to "privatize" a country and make millions.
Jun 5, 2003 / Feature / Tim Shorrock
Downsizing in Disguise Downsizing in Disguise
The streets of Baghdad are a swamp of crime and uncollected garbage. Battered local businesses are going bankrupt, unable to compete with cheap imports.
Jun 5, 2003 / Column / Naomi Klein
The New Mobility The New Mobility
A recent article in the Washington Post described some suburban high schoolers preparing for their proms by spending nearly $3,000 to rent an H2 Hummerzine, "complete with six ...
Jun 5, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
We’re Shocked, Shocked! We’re Shocked, Shocked!
It's hard to choose which deserves the coarser jeer: the excited baying in the press about the nondiscovery of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, or the wailing about the 3-t...
Jun 5, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
Read special extracts from Jonathan Schell's new book, The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and The Will of the People.
Jun 5, 2003 / Jonathan Schell
Report on the Search For Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, From the Republican Military Command (Karl Rove, Lt. General, Commanding) Report on the Search For Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, From the Republican Military Command (Karl Rove, Lt. General, Commanding)
We can't yet find the nukes and gas, Though we have looked in every section. But we may find them in Iran-- And just before the next election.
Jun 5, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin