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
History? What History? History? What History?
Allowing the looting of Iraq's museums is another indication of our contempt for the Mideast -- and our unfitness to rule it
Apr 16, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
The War Democrats The War Democrats
The Democratic Leadership Council, the lost-inside-the-Beltway group that last fall championed the disastrous Democratic strategy of cozying up to the Bush Administration on mi...
Apr 10, 2003 / John Nichols
Saving Private Lynch Saving Private Lynch
It was a drama too good to miss, made for TV, if not for Hollywood.
Apr 10, 2003 / Annette Fuentes
The Native Informant The Native Informant
Fouad Ajami is the Pentagon's favorite Arab.
Apr 10, 2003 / Feature / Adam Shatz
Everything George Bush Needs to Know He Learned on the Playground Everything George Bush Needs to Know He Learned on the Playground
Let's say that from the east while you look south An icy snowball hits you in the mouth. You see the kid who did it run, the wretch,
Apr 10, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Sacrifice Is for Suckers Sacrifice Is for Suckers
In his address to the nation on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, George W.
Apr 10, 2003 / Robert L. Borosage
Rumsfeld Should Go Rumsfeld Should Go
This editorial was originally published in the April 21, 2003 issue of The Nation.
Apr 3, 2003 / The Editors
On the Resignation of Richard Perle, Captain of The Sissy Hawk Brigade, On the Resignation of Richard Perle, Captain of The Sissy Hawk Brigade,
And so for Richard Perle was writ The second graf of his obit: This soaring bird of hawkish myth Was grounded when discovered with His talon in the cookie jar
Apr 3, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Washington Wars The Washington Wars
By the start of the third week of war, Bush was bogged down in Mesopotamia and Washington.
Apr 3, 2003 / David Corn