A New New Deal? A New New Deal?
The same week that New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced his plans to close eight city firehouses, Mike Wallace, John Jay College professor and bard of New York, held a ...
Dec 12, 2002 / Kim Phillips-Fein
What if the Hunt for ‘Evildoers’ Aimed at Us? What if the Hunt for ‘Evildoers’ Aimed at Us?
The negative response from the Bush Administration to the UN inspections in Iraq could be dismissed as childish pique were it not so telling an evocation of the image of the Ugly...
Dec 10, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
The US Caged–For Now The US Caged–For Now
Alfred Hitchcock was fond of McGuffins--meaningless plot devices on which the characters obsess while the real, gruesome story moves on elsewhere.
Dec 5, 2002 / Ian Williams
Who Will Tell the People? Who Will Tell the People?
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers is Daniel Ellsberg's story of his personal journey from being in the early 1960s a "dedicated cold warrior" who supported A...
Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Rudenstine
Total Information, Total Confusion Total Information, Total Confusion
So let's join Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Edward "Pete" Aldridge at a recent Pentagon press briefing, where he's addressing concerns a...
Nov 26, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Quiet in Hollywood Quiet in Hollywood
The Quiet American, which recently opened for a two-week run in a couple of theaters in New York and Los Angeles, illustrates just how far Hollywood self-censorship has gone in...
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Letter to America Letter to America
Resentment of US policies is growing.
Nov 26, 2002 / Feature / Jürgen Habermas
Straw Liberals and False Prophets Straw Liberals and False Prophets
One big problem with liberal and leftist debate about Al Qaeda or Iraq is that it rarely seems to have much to do with Al Qaeda or Iraq.
Nov 21, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
Call and Answer Call and Answer
Robert Bly, with David Ray, founded American Writers Against the Vietnam War in 1967; it sponsored many rallies and readings against the war. He is preparing a similar group to do ...
Nov 21, 2002 / Robert Bly
Antiwar Labor Pains Antiwar Labor Pains
Unions are edging into the peace movement, but they are still minor players.
Nov 21, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper