Was It Sexy, or Just Soviet? Was It Sexy, or Just Soviet?
Given the number of prematurely world-weary young men and women who followed the lure of easy money, cheap alcohol and even cheaper sex to the geopolitical discount bins of the...
Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eliot Borenstein
Bush Doesn’t Want Good News Bush Doesn’t Want Good News
Headlines tell us that United Nations arms inspectors have failed to find a "smoking gun" in their ongoing, unimpeded search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Jan 14, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Axis of Incoherence Axis of Incoherence
Axis of Incoherence
The burgeoning Far East crisis has exposed the bankruptcy of US Korea policy.
Jan 9, 2003 / The Editors
A Dangerous Game in Korea A Dangerous Game in Korea
US policies are fanning anti-Americanism in both the South and the North.
Jan 9, 2003 / Feature / Tim Shorrock
The Question of North Korea The Question of North Korea
Korea has the bomb, but not to worry.
It's not a crisis. No, we needn't hurry
To get inspections back. Why try to spot
The weapons they already say they've got?
Jan 8, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
No Room for Logic in Bush Foreign Policy No Room for Logic in Bush Foreign Policy
Darn, but those weapons of mass destruction keep turning up in the wrong places.
Jan 2, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Venezuela on the Brink Venezuela on the Brink
As the general strike against President Hugo Chávez entered its third week in early December, a major TV channel broadcast statements by baseball hero Andres Galarraga a...
Dec 23, 2002 / Steve Ellner
The Incubator Returns! The Incubator Returns!
So onward into 2003 we go, amid INS roundups of Middle Easterners in Southern California and the grand hunt for Saddam's "material breaches," which could be a song out of Gilbe...
Dec 23, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Does Europe Do It Better? Does Europe Do It Better?
In more than fifteen years of rock-and-roll touring, my worst night of sleep followed a June 10, 1989, show at Centro Sociale Leoncavallo, an anticapitalist squat in Milan.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Johnny Temple
The Moral Quandary The Moral Quandary
In late November, the journalism department at New York University hosted a forum on Iraq.
Dec 18, 2002 / Feature / Michael Massing