Letter from Ground Zero Letter from Ground Zero
In the past 200 years, all of the earth's great territorial empires, whether dynastic or colonial, or both, have been destroyed. The list includes the Russian empire of the cza...
Apr 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
In Fact In Fact
FRED J. COOK Ralph Nader writes: It's doubtful there has ever been a better, more dauntless and more unsung investigative reporter than Fred J. Cook. For Nation readers...
Apr 17, 2003 / The Editors
Democracy Tested Democracy Tested
The US military was deployed, the Bush Administration tells us, to bring democracy to Iraq. But the military brass and the Administration have apparently parted company on what...
Apr 17, 2003 / Lani Guinier
The Kurds Take a City The Kurds Take a City
By 9 am on April 10, the day Kirkuk fell, columns of Iraqi troops who were supposed to be defending the city fled to the Baghdad Garage, the main transportation terminal, and s...
Apr 17, 2003 / Eliza Griswold
Are We Safer? Are We Safer?
The Bush Administration and its cheerleaders in the media are claiming that the "remarkable success" of the US war in Iraq proves its opponents were "spectacularly wrong"--even...
Apr 17, 2003 / Stephen F. Cohen
Tomorrow in Baghdad Tomorrow in Baghdad
Even before US forces could establish order in the cities of Iraq and bring humanitarian relief to its people, the Bush Administration unleashed a barrage of threats against Sy...
Apr 17, 2003 / The Editors
The War Democrats The War Democrats
The Democratic Leadership Council, the lost-inside-the-Beltway group that last fall championed the disastrous Democratic strategy of cozying up to the Bush Administration on mi...
Apr 10, 2003 / John Nichols
Saving Private Lynch Saving Private Lynch
It was a drama too good to miss, made for TV, if not for Hollywood.
Apr 10, 2003 / Annette Fuentes
The Reckoning in Iraq The Reckoning in Iraq
Emerging from their meeting in Belfast the day before US forces announced Baghdad had fallen, George W.
Apr 10, 2003 / The Editors
Sacrifice Is for Suckers Sacrifice Is for Suckers
In his address to the nation on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, George W.
Apr 10, 2003 / Robert L. Borosage