Guantánamo Gulag Guantánamo Gulag
Whatever happened to the "worst of the worst"?
May 22, 2003 / Editorial / David Cole
Saving Private Lynch: Take 2 Saving Private Lynch: Take 2
In the 1998 film Wag the Dog, political operatives employ special editing techniques to create phony footage that will engender public sympathy for a manufactured war.
May 21, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
The New Yorker Goes to War The New Yorker Goes to War
In its first issue after the fall of the World Trade Center, The New Yorker published a handful of short reaction pieces by John Updike, Jonathan Franzen and others about the h...
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
The New Campus Raids The New Campus Raids
On February 26 the small town of Moscow, Idaho, saw more commotion than it had since a truck camper exploded in a vacant lot last September. While the town was still sleeping, ...
May 15, 2003 / Feature / Jungwon Kim
Dare Call It Treason Dare Call It Treason
Few traditions are more American than freedom of speech and the right to dissent.
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
Who Framed John Fund? Who Framed John Fund?
So the right-wing journalist John Fund may not be a model citizen, but contrary to the implications of many left journalists and gossip columnists, he's likely not the kind of ...
May 15, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman
Paying for Apartheid Paying for Apartheid
Two major lawsuits--filed in the United States against multinational corporations including GM, IBM and Citigroup for aiding and abetting apartheid--are at a critical juncture.
May 15, 2003 / Editorial / John S. Friedman
FCC: Public Be Damned FCC: Public Be Damned
John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney are founders of the media-reform network Free Press, one of the groups named in this article.
May 15, 2003 / Editorial / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
Partisan Requiem 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 ...
May 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Peter Brooks