Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
As I followed the initial coverage of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, I was reminded of a time in the early1980s when I spent some months researching the effects of a nuclear wa...
Jan 6, 2005 / Jonathan Schell
Assigning Responsibility Assigning Responsibility
Defending Rumsfeld, Bush says Rummy's great,
That as a planner he has been first rate--
Respected in the White House and the ranks.
Jan 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Calvin Trillin
Tim Spicer’s World Tim Spicer’s World
Why was a notorious mercenary awarded a $293 million Pentagon contract?
Dec 29, 2004 / Feature / Andrew Ackerman
The Right’s Assault on Kofi Annan The Right’s Assault on Kofi Annan
How the neocons created a "scandal" to punish a critic of US foreign policies.
Dec 22, 2004 / Feature / Ian Williams
You Break It, You Pay For It You Break It, You Pay For It
So it turns out Pottery Barn doesn't even have a rule that says, "You break it, you own it." According to a company spokesperson, "in the rare instance that something is broken i...
Dec 22, 2004 / Column / Naomi Klein
A Reply to Peter Beinart A Reply to Peter Beinart
In my last column, I focused on the Kerry campaign's inability to articulate an alternative national security strategy.
Dec 22, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman
Intervention Intervention
The Jonathan Schell Reader has just been published by Nation Books.
Dec 22, 2004 / Jonathan Schell
Why They Hated Gary Webb Why They Hated Gary Webb
Few spectacles in journalism in the mid-1990s were more disgusting than the slagging of Gary Webb in the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.
Dec 16, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Flawed Intelligence Bill Flawed Intelligence Bill
The debate held before Congress voted to reorganize the nation's intelligence agencies under the authority of an all-powerful intelligence czar was generally portrayed as a simpl...
Dec 16, 2004 / John Nichols
War Resisters Go North War Resisters Go North
Protests over the conduct of the Iraq war are mounting from what seems an unlikely place: the ranks of the military.
Dec 16, 2004 / Alisa Solomon