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
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
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
Taking Aim at Iran Taking Aim at Iran
Right-wingers in Washington have begun preparing the ground for US action, perhaps even war, against Iran.
Jun 5, 2003 / Juan Cole
Missing WMD Scandal Missing WMD Scandal
"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised," George...
Jun 5, 2003 / The Editors
Pentagon Aims Guns at Lynch Reports Pentagon Aims Guns at Lynch Reports
It is one thing when the talk-show bullies who shamelessly smeared the last President, even as he attacked the training camps of Al Qaeda, now term it anti-American or even treas...
May 30, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
¡Que Viva Mexico! ¡Que Viva Mexico!
For years it was one of those intriguing asterisk marks in many a great writer's career--a book that might have been but wasn't.
May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Kerr
The Other Iran The Other Iran
In the deformed, malignant years of the Ayatollah and the mullahs, women in Iran in the 1980s sometimes found subversive ways to mutiny against the cruelties imposed on them by...
May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Gloria Emerson
We’re Safe From Saddam We’re Safe From Saddam
A Joyous Song of Deliverance for Spring
May 29, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin