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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, security”–but who know

Kathy Boudin’s parole from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility after twenty-two years is welcome and overdue.

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 Vieira de Mello–the t

“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, maybe his Brazi

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.

This was the summer when the movies were so bad, people were reduced to complaining about a Mel Gibson film they hadn’t seen.

In Plato’s Republic, Socrates illustrates his theory of the parts of the soul with the story of Leontius, who saw some corpses rotting outside the walls of Athens and was torn between re

It is of some small comfort that totalitarian regimes are never quite as total as either their leaders or subsequent historians might imagine.

Interesting Times is a curiously feeble title for an autobiography, rather as if Noam Chomsky were to write an article called "Could America Do Better?" It carries, of course, the sting