The Ballad of Private Lynch The Ballad of Private Lynch
Preferring death to getting caught,
She emptied weapons as she fought.
Though shot and stabbed she didn't flinch.
She battled on, did Private Lynch.
Or did she?
Jun 19, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
‘Scoops’ and Truth at the Times ‘Scoops’ and Truth at the Times
What happens when Pentagon objectives and journalists' needs coincide.
Jun 5, 2003 / Feature / Russ Baker
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
White Lies White Lies
The radio went on in the middle of the night and there in my ear was the voice of a young man.
May 29, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Mirror of the Times Mirror of the Times
With all the words laundered over the Jayson Blair affair, why is my soul still disquieted? Why do I feel even further from the truth than on the day the journalistic fraud was...
May 29, 2003 / James W. Carey
Fight Club Fight Club
Writing may be fighting, as Ishmael Reed famously opined, but most writers know the difference. There are, of course, some who blur the line.
May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz
Forgetting to Laugh Forgetting to Laugh
Of all the columns I've written, never have I gotten more mail than for the following sentence: "It will not matter that the Dixie Chicks play to full, cheering houses, while t...
May 22, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams