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Feature
Whose Problem, Whose Solution?
The new UN resolution doesn’t even try to bring the Iraqi occupation into line with international law.
Ian Williams
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Looting and Conquest
US troops transformed the ancient site of Ur into a base, even digging trenches into the ground.
Zainab Bahrani
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Left Coast Notes
Several staggered rows of grayish papier-mâum;ché headstones have sprouted on the grassy quad of Santa Monica College–the crown jewel of Southern California’s once envied and now bat
Marc Cooper
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Hubris Unbound
See also Tim Shorrock’s March 2002 story for The Nation on the Carlyle Group.
Tim Shorrock
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Letter From Silicon Valley
As unemployment soars, many workers are rethinking their libertarian views.
Rebecca Vesely
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Bringing the War Home
In the name of fighting terrorism, the Army has established a domestic command.
Bob Dreyfuss
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Samaritans in the Desert
Defying US policy, they save the lives of illegal migrants, a cup of water at a time.
Bob Moser
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Why We Are Infidels
Fundamentalists are offended when there is no officially sanctioned path to salvation.
E.L. Doctorow
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Editorial
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Letter From Ground Zero
In this space last week, I commented that the choice for the United States in North Korea was probably between a catastrophic war and permitting North Korea to keep its nuclear program and its
Jonathan Schell
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Katha Pollitt Honored
Congratulations to Katha Pollitt, winner of the National Magazine Award in the Columns and Commentary category. Katha also won the 1992 award in Essays & Criticism.
The Editors
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SARS and Inequality
Over the past few months, yet another epidemic has come to trouble our unhappy world. Shortly after SARS was identified, the entire globe was put on notice.
Paul Farmer
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McCarthy’s Secret Show
Victor Navasky’s Naming Names (Hill & Wang) was recently reissued in paperback with a new afterword.
Victor Navasky
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Dean’s No Wellstone
Lately, presidential contender Howard Dean has been likening himself to the late Senator Paul Wellstone.
Jim Farrell
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Scandal on Scandal
The best names in Wall Street, who besmirched themselves with double-dealing stock-market scandals, were finally “punished” recently, and the miscreants could not contain their glee.
The Editors
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Column
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Elections vs. Democracy in Argentina
In most of the world, it’s the sign for peace, but here in Argentina it means war.
Naomi Klein
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The Disquieted American
Recently Congress released transcripts of secret testimony of witnesses summoned before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s infamous subcommittee in hearings that impugned the patriotism of everyone from
Patricia J. Williams
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The Trials of Ed Rosenthal
Come June 4, Ed Rosenthal will be back in US District Court in San Francisco, to hear what sentence Judge Charles Breyer has decided to impose.
Alexander Cockburn
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On the Revelation of William Bennett’s Gambling Habit
Bill Bennett told a grateful nation,
“Be moral. Just resist temptation.”
By windbag airing of this thesis,
Bill Bennett got as rich as Croesus.Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Partisan Requiem
The announcement a few weeks ago that Partisan Review was closing shop after a run of nearly seventy years brought sadness–since PR at its best was a central site of American cul
Peter Brooks
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The Revolution Within
In the current national climate, the notion that Washington might learn from the experience of former Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev or Mikhail Gorbachev would strike most as ludicrous.
Robert D. English
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Dead Poets Society
It is agonizingly difficult to write about one’s hometown as it drowns in flames and suffocates with smoke.
Sinan Antoon
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Letters
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