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Yes, War Really Is Hell Yes, War Really Is Hell

The risks of war? There was the risk of being bombed if you had the misfortune to live in a neighborhood where US targeters thought Saddam Hussein might be located.

Apr 10, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Taking the Cake Taking the Cake

According to a recent Gallup Poll, 78 percent of white Americans supported invading Iraq, but only 29 percent of blacks.

Apr 10, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Telecom Labor Rising Telecom Labor Rising

Union members are making links between customers' concerns and their own.

Apr 10, 2003 / Feature / Steve Early and Larry Cohen

The New Globetrotters The New Globetrotters

Globalization: Use this word in a sentence, especially as the cause of something bad, and you will get knowing nods all around.

Apr 10, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Susan J. Douglas

A Pox on America A Pox on America

In December, when hospitals in Atlanta and Richmond announced that they were opting out of the federal smallpox vaccination plan, opinion leaders reacted as if the physicians h...

Apr 10, 2003 / Madeline Drexler

Can We Talk? Can We Talk?

CORRECTION: When this column was originally published, a fact-checking error caused the word "owner" to be removed from a reference to the Jewish "owner-editors" of U.S. News &...

Apr 3, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman

The Press and the Myths of War The Press and the Myths of War

There is nothing glorious or gallant about combat.

Apr 3, 2003 / Feature / Chris Hedges

The Naked and the Red The Naked and the Red

Led by a former Boeing machinist, Las Vegas exotic dancers are talking union.

Apr 3, 2003 / Feature / Marc Cooper

Diversity and Its Malcontents Diversity and Its Malcontents

David L. Kirp has chronicled the Mount Laurel, New Jersey, history in Almost Home: America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community (Princeton).

Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp

Lawyers Keep Out Lawyers Keep Out

Because September 11 "changed everything," it hasn't always been easy to find an objective yardstick by which to judge the Bush Administration's tactics in the "war on terroris...

Apr 3, 2003 / David Cole

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