The New Yorker Goes to War The New Yorker Goes to War
In its first issue after the fall of the World Trade Center, The New Yorker published a handful of short reaction pieces by John Updike, Jonathan Franzen and others about the h...
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
Letter From Baghdad Letter From Baghdad
The failure to provide for postwar needs has deepened distrust of US intentions.
May 15, 2003 / Feature / Steve Negus
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
During the cold war, nuclear strategic doctrine was riven by a fundamental contradiction.
May 15, 2003 / Jonathan Schell
Paying for Apartheid Paying for Apartheid
Two major lawsuits--filed in the United States against multinational corporations including GM, IBM and Citigroup for aiding and abetting apartheid--are at a critical juncture.
May 15, 2003 / John S. Friedman
WMD? MIA WMD? MIA
When Bush (sans flight suit) delivered a photo-op victory speech to the men and women of the USS Abraham Lincoln, he solemnly noted, "We've begun the search for hidden chemical...
May 15, 2003 / David Corn
Shaking the Kingdom Shaking the Kingdom
The suicide attacks in Riyadh, which Saudi officials blamed on Al Qaeda, were barbarous acts.
May 15, 2003 / The Editors
Whose Problem, Whose Solution? Whose Problem, Whose Solution?
The new UN resolution doesn't even try to bring the Iraqi occupation into line with international law.
May 14, 2003 / Feature / Ian Williams
Looting and Conquest Looting and Conquest
US troops transformed the ancient site of Ur into a base, even digging trenches into the ground.
May 14, 2003 / Feature / Zainab Bahrani
The WMD Follies The WMD Follies
It turns out the threat is not from Iraq but from us.
May 13, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer