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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

Subway Fears, Bioterrorism and Tetanus Shots Subway Fears, Bioterrorism and Tetanus Shots

Dear Dr. Marc,

Apr 3, 2003 / Column / Dr. Marc Siegel

‘Terror’ as the Ultimate Excuse ‘Terror’ as the Ultimate Excuse

"My own government," Martin Luther King Jr.

Apr 1, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

On Richard Perle, Lobbyist, Businessman And, Perhaps Not Coincidentally, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board On Richard Perle, Lobbyist, Businessman And, Perhaps Not Coincidentally, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board

The plans to start this war were laid
Within the Sissy Hawk Brigade--
A band of Vietnam evaders
All puffed up now as tough crusaders.

Mar 27, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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

Codes of Etiquette Codes of Etiquette

Recently, Nilas Martins, principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, was stopped in Washington, DC, by gun-wielding policemen.

Mar 27, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

The Wraps Come Off Bush’s Colonialist Agenda The Wraps Come Off Bush’s Colonialist Agenda

The Bush Administration's plan to keep several hundred thousand US and British troops for years in a divided, heavily armed Muslim country will make all Americans "targets of opp...

Mar 25, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Loyal Opposition The Loyal Opposition

The Senate Democrats sat mum,
Like doves afraid to coo.
So history will soon record
This war as their war too.

Mar 20, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin

War. What Is It Good For? War. What Is It Good For?

By the time you read this, the invasion of Iraq may have begun--or it may be over.

Mar 20, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Perle, Interrupted Perle, Interrupted

Famed Prince of Darkness Richard Perle is a political animal unique to Washington.

Mar 20, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman

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