God Changes Everything God Changes Everything
Let's say there was a school system or a chain of clinics on whose professional staff were a certain number of men who molested the children in their care and who, whenever this ...
Mar 14, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Fallout of Desperation The Fallout of Desperation
The news that the Pentagon had secret contingency plans to fight terrorism with nuclear weapons has the marks not of considered military doctrine but rather of an infantile tantr...
Mar 12, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Back Into the Muck Back Into the Muck
Nation pay rates, you may have heard from brother Trillin, are not those of Condé Nast. Every once in a while I don't mind this, because the job just kind of does itself. ...
Mar 7, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Nightmare in Israel The Nightmare in Israel
Let's start with Baruch Kimmerling, a sociologist at Hebrew University. Here's what he published in the Jerusalem weekly Kol Ha'Ir last month: "I accuse Ariel Sharon of creating ...
Mar 7, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
The Bush Plan for a Shadow Government The Bush Plan for a Shadow Government
A place was found for Mr. Cheney Where, even if the missiles rain, he Can carry on his governing nonstop. They then found bunkers down so far That closed-lip Bushies even are...
Mar 7, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Virtual Reality Virtual Reality
In my last column, I mentioned that most actual drug users are young white people, even though most of those "profiled" as drug users are people of color. Indeed, according to th...
Mar 7, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Still Bad New Old Nixon The Still Bad New Old Nixon
It's been three decades since President Richard M.
Mar 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert Scheer
Condolences to Musharraf Condolences to Musharraf
What the Islamic fascists do, and what they believe, and what they intend, are three aspects of the same one-dimensional thing. It is ludicrous to accuse them of being untrue to th...
Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Justice, Not So Swift Justice, Not So Swift
On October 31 Governor Jane Swift of Massachusetts pardoned five women who had been convicted and executed in the Salem witch trials in 1692. Well, better late than never--what's...
Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
On the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Influence On the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Influence
The OSI's intent to disinform Received responses that were less than warm. The Pentagon now says it doesn't need An office just to lie and to mislead. There is, though, one f...
Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin