Running Out of Targets (A Pilot’s Lament) Running Out of Targets (A Pilot’s Lament)
We're running out of targets, guys, There's nothing to destroy. They simply don't have buildings here, Like Baghdad or Hanoi. Today I sent a missile off And said, "That's all she wrote." It turned out that I'd vaporized Two camels and a goat. So let's go back to Serbia. These gunsights have to glom On something that's not rocks or sand. There's nothing here to bomb.
Nov 1, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Letters Letters
MUDDLED NATION New York City On October 11, an alliance of Latinos, blacks and union members came close to a historic victory in New York. Alas, media rang...
Oct 25, 2001 / Letters / Our Readers
A Legal Recounting A Legal Recounting
Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is an intellectual force to be reckoned with. The author, seemingly, of more books written whil...
Oct 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Leonard H. Becker
Art & the Towering Sadness Art & the Towering Sadness
Not long after the attack on the World Trade Center, when my wife and I sat dazed and weeping by the television screen, a call came through from a journalist wanting to know what ...
Oct 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Big Pharma’s Payoff Big Pharma’s Payoff
Talk about good times for Washington's mercenary culture. Even as officials scrambled to explain why they had not acted more quickly to protect postal workers from anthrax contami...
Oct 25, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
Working-Class Heroes Working-Class Heroes
The September 11 attack on the World Trade Center led journalists and image-makers to rediscover New York's working class. In an extraordinary essay in Business Week titled "Real ...
Oct 25, 2001 / Editorial / Joshua Freeman
In Fact… In Fact…
ANOTHER KIND OF MONEY LAUNDERING When the Financial Times launched an investigation into the contributors to "counter-capitalist groups," its dragnet hauled in an unlikely name--...
Oct 25, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
Other Races to Watch Other Races to Watch
MUNICIPAL UPHEAVALS The highest-profile fight nationally has to be the race to succeed New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, with labor-backed Democrat Mark Green and Republican Mic...
Oct 25, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols
MUD-Wrestling in California MUD-Wrestling in California
San Franciscans will vote on whether to create a public power company.
Oct 25, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols
Twin Peaks Twin Peaks
Lifestyle sections have lately been detailing the public's renewed appetite for comfort food. If that rice-pudding desire translates to the big screen, then cinematic fairy tales ...
Oct 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / B. Ruby Rich