The Doha Follies The Doha Follies
Of the more than 700 journalists who have registered with the CentCom Coalition Media Center here, two have emerged as celebrities.
Apr 3, 2003 / Michael Massing
Rumsfeld Should Go Rumsfeld Should Go
This editorial was originally published in the April 21, 2003 issue of The Nation.
Apr 3, 2003 / The Editors
Can We Talk? Can We Talk?
CORRECTION: When this column was originally published, a fact-checking error caused the word "owner" to be removed from a reference to the Jewish "owner-editors" of U.S. News &...
Apr 3, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman
With the Kurds With the Kurds
I'm standing at the northern front in Chamchamal, a quarter-mile from Saddam Hussein's hilltop divisions. Before me six mounds of earth, like oversized anthills, line the ridge...
Mar 27, 2003 / Eliza Griswold
Dispatch From Britain Dispatch From Britain
The night the war began, an ashen-faced woman in Parliament Square held up a photograph of an Iraqi soldier, reduced to a smudge of carbon but for his head and feet--an image f...
Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Maria Margaronis
Dispatch From Vietnam Dispatch From Vietnam
In this country, where a US military attack echoes more loudly perhaps than anywhere else in the world, protesters against the war are expressing themselves from Hanoi in the n...
Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Peter Davis
The Rockets’ Red Glare The Rockets’ Red Glare
The fierce tableau of smoke and flames that US bombs created over Baghdad--a visual message of America's awesomely destructive power--brought to mind Shelley's meditation on an...
Mar 27, 2003 / The Editors
Dispatch From Russia Dispatch From Russia
A few hours after the United States launched its first missile attack against Baghdad, I spoke to 400 students and faculty at Moscow's largest university of commerce and econom...
Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Chickens in a Darkening Sky Chickens in a Darkening Sky
Suddenly the sky is dark with chickens coming home to roost, and bedtime reading is Thucydides' account of the disastrous Athenian siege of Syracuse.
Mar 27, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Dispatch From France Dispatch From France
Following the first attack at 3 am French time, the morning papers were ready with generic "War Is Here" headlines, accompanied by full-page images of dark skies.
Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Mark Cramer