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
Yes, War Really Is Hell Yes, War Really Is Hell
The risks of war? There was the risk of being bombed if you had the misfortune to live in a neighborhood where US targeters thought Saddam Hussein might be located.
Apr 10, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Taking the Cake Taking the Cake
According to a recent Gallup Poll, 78 percent of white Americans supported invading Iraq, but only 29 percent of blacks.
Apr 10, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Privatization in Disguise Privatization in Disguise
On April 6, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz spelled it out: There will be no role for the United Nations in setting up an interim government in Iraq.
Apr 10, 2003 / Column / Naomi Klein
Everything George Bush Needs to Know He Learned on the Playground Everything George Bush Needs to Know He Learned on the Playground
Let's say that from the east while you look south
An icy snowball hits you in the mouth.
You see the kid who did it run, the wretch,
Apr 10, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The View From the Throne The View From the Throne
After carefully crafted U.S.
Apr 9, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
On the Resignation of Richard Perle, Captain of The Sissy Hawk Brigade, On the Resignation of Richard Perle, Captain of The Sissy Hawk Brigade,
And so for Richard Perle was writ
The second graf of his obit:
This soaring bird of hawkish myth
Was grounded when discovered with
His talon in the cookie jar
Apr 3, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
In the Waiting Room In the Waiting Room
"We are in a funding emergency today," read the e-mail from the New York Abortion Access Fund.
Apr 3, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt