Are We Numb or Dumb? Are We Numb or Dumb?
Forget truth. That is the message from our government and its apologists in the media who insist that the Iraq invasion is a great success story even though it was based on a lie...
Apr 29, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
SARS, Coral Calcium and Mood Disorders SARS, Coral Calcium and Mood Disorders
Dear Dr. Marc,
Apr 28, 2003 / Ask Dr. Marc / Dr. Marc Siegel
New America New America
Over dinner recently, a friend of mine mused that "at least it's not as bad as the McCarthy era." Perhaps not.
Apr 24, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Decline and Fall of American Journalism The Decline and Fall of American Journalism
As a million Shiite pilgrims streamed toward Karbala shouting, "No to America, no to Saddam, no to tyranny, no to Israel!" can't you just imagine the plash of complacent I Told...
Apr 24, 2003 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Wars Wars
(A preventive-war anthem sung to the tune of "Trees," by Joyce Kilmer, with piano accompaniment)
Apr 24, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Did Bush Deceive Us in His Rush to War? Did Bush Deceive Us in His Rush to War?
Now that the war has been won, is it permissible to suggest that our emperor has no clothes?
Apr 23, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Bush Goes AWOL Bush Goes AWOL
One of the many maddening feats of this Administration is that in choosing to fight the war on terror by going to war with Iraq, George W. Bush has inspired new terrorist threa...
Apr 17, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman
Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice
How do we know the economy is in bad shape? Unemployed white male hotshots are back in the news. "This man used to make $300,000 a year," reads the New York Times Magazine's co...
Apr 17, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt
On The Halliburton Corporation’s Iraq Contracts On The Halliburton Corporation’s Iraq Contracts
A lot of folks die. At last the war ends. The world is made safe For Dick Cheney's friends.
Apr 17, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
History? What History? History? What History?
Allowing the looting of Iraq's museums is another indication of our contempt for the Mideast -- and our unfitness to rule it
Apr 16, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer