Are We Numb or Dumb? Are We Numb or Dumb?
Forget truth. That is the message from our government and its apologists in the media who insist that the Iraq invasion is a great success story even though it was based on a lie...
Apr 29, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Rumsfeld’s Untidy World Rumsfeld’s Untidy World
On April 11th--the day of the most widespread and uncontrolled looting in Iraq--Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld produced one of the more sour notes of the nascent postwar perio...
Apr 25, 2003 / Feature / Jonathan Miller
Hammering Down I-25 Hammering Down I-25
It's a great country. Don't let the hucksters and charlatans take it away.
Apr 24, 2003 / Feature / James Lee Burke
The Republican Party’s Goal Is to Destroy the Federal Government The Republican Party’s Goal Is to Destroy the Federal Government
For years, their driving ambition has been to get government “down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”
Apr 24, 2003 / Feature / William Greider
Did Bush Deceive Us in His Rush to War? Did Bush Deceive Us in His Rush to War?
Now that the war has been won, is it permissible to suggest that our emperor has no clothes?
Apr 23, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
"The Moviegoer," by Walker Percy
Apr 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Swetala
‘Anti-Semitism,’ Israel and the Left ‘Anti-Semitism,’ Israel and the Left
Who's really behind the crude equation between Israel and "the Jews"?
Apr 17, 2003 / Feature / Philip Green
Bush Goes AWOL Bush Goes AWOL
One of the many maddening feats of this Administration is that in choosing to fight the war on terror by going to war with Iraq, George W. Bush has inspired new terrorist threa...
Apr 17, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman
Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice
How do we know the economy is in bad shape? Unemployed white male hotshots are back in the news. "This man used to make $300,000 a year," reads the New York Times Magazine's co...
Apr 17, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Letter from Ground Zero Letter from Ground Zero
In the past 200 years, all of the earth's great territorial empires, whether dynastic or colonial, or both, have been destroyed. The list includes the Russian empire of the cza...
Apr 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell