September 11, 2003 September 11, 2003
Anniversaries are historical page markers; they denote a time to pause and reflect.
Sep 4, 2003 / The Editors
A Short Conversation With a Sissy-Hawk on the Possibility of a Quagmire A Short Conversation With a Sissy-Hawk on the Possibility of a Quagmire
"The nerve! Not so! That word still rankles." "You're sinking. I can't see your ankles." "The thugs are here; we now just squeeze."
Sep 4, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Swing Time for Hitler Swing Time for Hitler
It is of some small comfort that totalitarian regimes are never quite as total as either their leaders or subsequent historians might imagine.
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton
Ignited Iraq Ignited Iraq
An imperial errand is not so hard to begin, not so easy to complete.
Aug 28, 2003 / Feature / Peter Davis
Handmaid in Babylon: The UN’s Decline and Fall Handmaid in Babylon: The UN’s Decline and Fall
"One has to be careful," said United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in late August, "not to confuse the UN with the US." If the Secretary General had taken his own advice...
Aug 28, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Just Wait Just Wait
The White House said, although it wasn't true, Iraq must be invaded, PDQ, Since terrorists, who'd caught us unaware, Were with Iraq, and always gathered there.
Aug 28, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
In the Stars In the Stars
This essay was one of the winners out of a pool of 290 entries in a recent writing contest sponsored by Women's WORLD, the Nation Institute and the Puffin Foundation designed to br...
Aug 28, 2003 / Monica Arac de Nyeko
Women’s Voices Women’s Voices
Through the corporate media's electronic collage of murders, sex scandals, celebrity sightings and Pentagon-generated fantasy can be heard a constant buzz--"war, terror, securi...
Aug 28, 2003 / Meredith Tax
The Tragedy of Iraq The Tragedy of Iraq
With the August 19 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, and with the deaths of twenty-three people so far--including the chief of the UN mission, Sergio Vieir...
Aug 28, 2003 / The Editors
Ideas the Pentagon Wishes It Never Had Ideas the Pentagon Wishes It Never Had
A recap of the Pentagon's most egregious post-9/11 mistakes, mishaps and manifestations of misdirection.
Aug 24, 2003 / Feature / Ari Berman