War and Peace

With the Kurds With the Kurds

I'm standing at the northern front in Chamchamal, a quarter-mile from Saddam Hussein's hilltop divisions. Before me six mounds of earth, like oversized anthills, line the ridge...

Mar 27, 2003 / Eliza Griswold

Chickens in a Darkening Sky Chickens in a Darkening Sky

Suddenly the sky is dark with chickens coming home to roost, and bedtime reading is Thucydides' account of the disastrous Athenian siege of Syracuse.

Mar 27, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Keeping Hope Alive Keeping Hope Alive

You can be forgiven if, like me, you were a bit depressed to hear that the war had started. But this is no time to go into a funk.

Mar 25, 2003 / William D. Hartung

The Wraps Come Off Bush’s Colonialist Agenda The Wraps Come Off Bush’s Colonialist Agenda

The Bush Administration's plan to keep several hundred thousand US and British troops for years in a divided, heavily armed Muslim country will make all Americans "targets of opp...

Mar 25, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

Postcards From New York Postcards From New York

Among the approximately 150,000 people who took to the streets of New York on March 22 to protest the US invasion of Iraq were six Nation interns.

Mar 25, 2003 / Feature / The Nation

Global Dispatches Global Dispatches

The Nation elicited comment on reaction to the war against Iraq from all corners of the globe.

Mar 20, 2003 / Feature / The Nation

An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy An American Tragedy

The tragedy of America in the post-cold war era is that we have proved unequal to the responsibility that our own power placed upon us.

Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell

The Poodle That Barked The Poodle That Barked

George Bush is supposed to be the cowboy, Tony Blair the sidekick--or, in some versions, the presidential poodle.

Mar 20, 2003 / D.D. Guttenplan

The Big Lie The Big Lie

How bad can things get, how fast? Are we already at the point where literally nothing can derail the war machine?

Mar 20, 2003 / Russ Baker

Inside Baghdad Inside Baghdad

Iraqis, exhausted by years of sanctions and oppression, just want it all to end.

Mar 20, 2003 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill

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