Oil, Iraq and America Oil, Iraq and America
For more from Hiro on Iraq, read Iraq: In the Eye of the Storm, a short, lucid primer recently published by NationBooks.
Dec 16, 2002 / Feature / Dilip Hiro
Show-and-Tell Time Show-and-Tell Time
For a brief moment one could almost believe that the US march toward war with Iraq had paused.
Dec 12, 2002 / The Editors
Iraq After D-Day: The Cordesman Memo Iraq After D-Day: The Cordesman Memo
Napoleon would sketch out in an afternoon the new constitution and legal arrangements for one of France's imperial conquests.
Dec 12, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The US Caged–For Now The US Caged–For Now
Alfred Hitchcock was fond of McGuffins--meaningless plot devices on which the characters obsess while the real, gruesome story moves on elsewhere.
Dec 5, 2002 / Ian Williams
Censorship 101 Censorship 101
Annals of Higher Education: If recent events at Stanford and Harvard are any indication, the past decade's earnest debates over "political correctness" are over, replaced by ro...
Dec 5, 2002 / Bruce Shapiro
As Miss World Turns As Miss World Turns
The war between religious fanaticism and secular modernity is fought over women's bodies.
Dec 5, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Inspections: The White House Fallback Position Inspections: The White House Fallback Position
If nothing shows in spyplane pics
And Blix finds nothing in the sticks,
That still won't put us in a fix.
We'll blame it on Iraqi tricks,
Nov 26, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Letter From Chile Letter From Chile
Neoliberalism has produced an eco-crisis.
Nov 26, 2002 / Feature / Jimmy Langman
Endgame in Korea Endgame in Korea
On a sparkling Indian Summer day fifteen years ago, I was waiting in front of the Pyongyang Hotel with a British documentary producer.
Nov 25, 2002 / Feature / Bruce Cumings
Age of Anxiety Age of Anxiety
A spate of recent terrorism events--the bombing of a French tanker, the destruction of a nightclub in Bali, an FBI warning of a "spectacular" Al Qaeda action and the surfacing ...
Nov 21, 2002 / The Editors