Why Estrada Went Down Why Estrada Went Down
A few hours after Miguel Estrada withdrew his name for a judgeship on the Court of Appeals for the Washington, DC, Circuit, a leading Senate liberal was asked about the meaning...
Sep 11, 2003 / Jack Newfield
Bush’s Unreality Show Bush’s Unreality Show
Competing in prime time with a docudrama celebrating his heroics after the attacks of September 11, 2001, George W.
Sep 11, 2003 / The Editors
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
The basic mistake of American policy in Iraq is not that the Pentagon--believing the fairy tales told it by Iraqi exile groups and overriding State Department advice--forgot, w...
Sep 4, 2003 / Jonathan Schell
Venezuela’s Recall Venezuela’s Recall
Venezuela appeared to take a couple of steps closer to a recall referendum on the presidency of Hugo Chávez in recent weeks, but there is little chance that he will be r...
Sep 4, 2003 / Mark Weisbrot
Alabama Breakup Alabama Breakup
While the national media gaze has fixed upon the battle to move a two-and-a-half-ton Ten Commandments monument out of view in the state's judiciary building, Alabama is about t...
Sep 4, 2003 / Allen Tullos
UK Sideshow to Iraq UK Sideshow to Iraq
With its daily dominance of the headlines and a stellar cast from the worlds of government, secret intelligence and the media, the Hutton inquiry, playing here until the end of...
Sep 4, 2003 / D.D. Guttenplan
September 11, 2003 September 11, 2003
Anniversaries are historical page markers; they denote a time to pause and reflect.
Sep 4, 2003 / The Editors
In the Stars In the Stars
This essay was one of the winners out of a pool of 290 entries in a recent writing contest sponsored by Women's WORLD, the Nation Institute and the Puffin Foundation designed to br...
Aug 28, 2003 / Monica Arac de Nyeko
Women’s Voices Women’s Voices
Through the corporate media's electronic collage of murders, sex scandals, celebrity sightings and Pentagon-generated fantasy can be heard a constant buzz--"war, terror, securi...
Aug 28, 2003 / Meredith Tax
Lessons of the Blackout Lessons of the Blackout
Watch for William Greider's forthcoming book The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy, due in bookstores in early September. Click here for info on the book and or...
Aug 28, 2003 / William Greider