Letter From Ground Zero: February 7, 2002 Letter From Ground Zero: February 7, 2002
Disarmament Wars
Feb 7, 2002 / Jonathan Schell
POWs in Legal Limbo POWs in Legal Limbo
It's safe to assume that the 150 or so Al Qaeda and Taliban militiamen now occupying those 6-by-8-foot cages in Guantánamo Bay are not sympathetic characters. It's also re...
Feb 7, 2002 / Bruce Shapiro
Society of the Spectacle Society of the Spectacle
The slogans scrawled across the walls of Paris in May 1968 suggest possibilities most of us have forgotten or that were long ago deemed preposterous. "Never work!" said one sloga...
Feb 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jeremy Smith
A Summary of the Response of Democratic Loyalists to the Prospects of Another Presidential Race by Albert Gore A Summary of the Response of Democratic Loyalists to the Prospects of Another Presidential Race by Albert Gore
Recalling what took place before,
We must implore Al Gore: No more.
Feb 7, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Axis Me No Questions… Axis Me No Questions…
George W. Bush's State of the Union address has laid bare his Administration's political strategy. It is to manipulate the grief, anger and patriotism inspired by September 11 to...
Feb 7, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
Bad Hair Day Bad Hair Day
We have reached the point that the idea of liberty, an idea relatively recent and new, is already in the process of fading from our consciences and our standards of morality, t...
Feb 7, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
What Are They Hiding? What Are They Hiding?
Secrecy is the guiding philosophy of the Bush Administration.
Feb 7, 2002 / Feature / Russ Baker
Take This Prize and Shove It Take This Prize and Shove It
Right till the end of January, Dita Sari, an Indonesian in her late 20s, was preparing to fly from her home near Jakarta to Salt Lake City to bask in the admiration of assorted d...
Feb 7, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Why the Right Loves Bush Why the Right Loves Bush
It was the start of another Conservative Political Action Conference--the annual gathering of several thousand activists--and Republican Party chairman Marc Racicot, in unexcitin...
Feb 7, 2002 / David Corn
Our Collective Bargain Our Collective Bargain
The fortunes of American unions have taken a turn for the worse. Thanks to terrorism and recession, union members are reeling from a series of economic and political setbacks. Ne...
Feb 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early