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There’s No, No In Your Eyes There’s No, No In Your Eyes

As Sung to Saddam Hussein by George W. Bush

(With apologies to Eddy Howard, and anybody who becomes collateral damage)

Sep 26, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Taking Sides Taking Sides

I suppose I can just about bear to watch the "inspections" pantomime a second time.

Sep 26, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Beyond Good and Evil Beyond Good and Evil

So now it's official.

Sep 26, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Bush Jumps the Gun With Preemptive Strikes Bush Jumps the Gun With Preemptive Strikes

President Bush's recently announced strategic global doctrine, which for the first time justifies a preemptive US strike against any regime thought to possess weapons of mass des...

Sep 26, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

A Scholarly Analysis of Developments (Including Satellite Photos, A Scholarly Analysis of Developments (Including Satellite Photos,

Osama's split and Wall Street's sagging.
It's time to get that puppy wagging.

Sep 19, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

An Entire Class of Thieves An Entire Class of Thieves

When Len Bias died of a cocaine overdose back in 1986 Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan raced each other to show the world who could punish the poor quickest and hardest.

Sep 19, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Infallible Justice Infallible Justice

I saw a puzzling banner on the door of a restaurant the other day. It was a flag flanked by two aphorisms: God bless America and America bless God.

Sep 19, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Just Asking… Just Asking…

Shortly after September 11, Dan Rather--or "El Diablo" as he is known to conservatives--appeared on Letterman and announced, "George Bush is the President, he makes the decisio...

Sep 19, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

Slut Patrol Slut Patrol

In some parts of China, local officials keep track of women's menstrual periods. We haven't come to that, but anyone who thinks women's reproductive and sexual privacy is secure in...

Sep 12, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Appointment in Samarra? Appointment in Samarra?

How would people be discussing the issue of "regime change" in Iraq if the question were not being forced upon them by the Administration?


Sep 12, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

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