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
‘New Mideast Approach’: Flawed? ‘New Mideast Approach’: Flawed?
'New Mideast Approach': Flawed? Elkhorn, Neb. There are many grave problems with Jerome M. Segal's "A New Middle East Approach" [Jan. 28]. I will discuss two....
Feb 28, 2002 / Our Readers
A ‘Second Front’ in the Philippines A ‘Second Front’ in the Philippines
America called on its former colony to fill the bill for a sequel to Al Qaeda.
Feb 28, 2002 / Feature / Walden Bello
Tulsa’s Shame Tulsa’s Shame
Race riot victims still wait for promised reparations.
Feb 28, 2002 / Feature / Adrian Brune
Mayor Jerry Brown, Take II Mayor Jerry Brown, Take II
He's created new projects, made new friends--and some bitter enemies.
Feb 28, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Big Media, Little Media Big Media, Little Media
The nation's largest media corporations are now poised to gain dramatically greater control over what Americans watch, listen to and read. A February 19 decision by the US Court ...
Feb 28, 2002 / The Editors
Two Cheers for Our Side Two Cheers for Our Side
One of the pitfalls of publishing a weekly journal of critical opinion at a moment when the political culture has drifted to the right is that there is so much of which to be cri...
Feb 28, 2002 / The Editors
Biowar–Are We Ready? Biowar–Are We Ready?
Remember anthrax? The investigation into the anthrax attacks that killed five people and infected eighteen others this past fall drags on, and the FBI says it has not identified ...
Feb 28, 2002 / The Editors
Messenger Messenger
The birds stopped coming after the annuals died. I didn't realize how much I missed them until the bluebird Returned, lured by the burgundy haze of the fall pansies Pour...
Feb 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Franklin
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