The Coalition Authority Explains Democracy to the Iraqi People The Coalition Authority Explains Democracy to the Iraqi People
We'll give you back the country soon.
Your leaders at the end of June
Will be there democratically.
We'll let you know soon who they'll be.
May 20, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Scandal’s Shame, Massachusetts’ Pride Scandal’s Shame, Massachusetts’ Pride
What a wonderful image of democracy and tolerance the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has presented to the world by allowing same-sex marriages.
May 19, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
Green Lights for Torture Green Lights for Torture
So there were WMDs in Iraq after all. They're called digital cameras. Partly because of them, the United States faces one of the most humiliating defeats in imperial history.
May 13, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
On the Abuse of Prisoners in Iraq On the Abuse of Prisoners in Iraq
We're told that the few rotten apples
Who brought on this sordid affair'll
Be punished. But what if those apples
Are right at the top of the barrel?
May 13, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin
In Kind In Kind
As of this writing, seven in ten Americans want Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to remain at his post, a vote of confidence that exceeds that even for the President himself.
May 13, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Thread of Abuse Runs to the Oval Office Thread of Abuse Runs to the Oval Office
Someone's lying--big-time--and neither Congress nor the media have begun to scratch the surface.
May 11, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
On the Selection (and De-Selection) of a Baathist General From the Republican Guard to Pacify the Populace, Using American Weapons, Or, Pick of the Week On the Selection (and De-Selection) of a Baathist General From the Republican Guard to Pacify the Populace, Using American Weapons, Or, Pick of the Week
By smashing evil-doers flat, we've said,
This war has changed Iraq forevermore.
So why is it that Kurds and Shiites start
Imagining they've seen this all before?
May 6, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Show & Tell in Abu Ghraib Show & Tell in Abu Ghraib
What are the thousand words, I wonder, that are worth the pictures of grinning US soldiers sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison?
May 6, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Is Koppel a Commie? Is Koppel a Commie?
The Sinclair Broadcast Group, a Maryland-based media company whose holdings include sixty-two TV stations, did the country a favor when it refused to air the April 30 special e...
May 6, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman
When We’re the Evildoers in Iraq When We’re the Evildoers in Iraq
President Bush is again refusing to take responsibility for any of the horrors happening on his watch.
May 5, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer