Information Lockdown Information Lockdown
Viewers of the old spy spoof Get Smart will remember the Cone of Silence--that giant plastic hair-salon dryer that descended over Maxwell Smart and Control when they held a sensit...
Oct 25, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
US Bows to Turkey US Bows to Turkey
Alongside the White House and the Capitol building on the alleged terrorist hit list for September 11 was another, little-noticed target: Incirlik, a US airbase in southern Turkey...
Oct 25, 2001 / Ian Urbina
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 / The Editors
‘Blowback,’ the Prequel ‘Blowback,’ the Prequel
The story of what historians call the second cold war often begins with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, which shocked Americans into their own overreaction i...
Oct 25, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
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 / Joshua Freeman
A True Patriot Can Pose Hard Questions A True Patriot Can Pose Hard Questions
War skeptics such as Richard Gere, Susan Sontag, Rep.
Oct 23, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer
Indict Pinochet Indict Pinochet
It's been three years since Gen. Augusto Pinochet was detained in London under the European Anti-Terrorism Convention for crimes that included terrorist atrocities. If George W. B...
Oct 18, 2001 / The Editors
Mugging the ICC Mugging the ICC
While the United States has spent the past few weeks imploring other countries to cooperate with our war on terrorism, behind the scenes it's apparently retaining an isolationist ...
Oct 18, 2001 / Daphne Eviatar
Court Time for Henry Court Time for Henry
Although it may appear that the aftershocks of September 11 have somewhat deposed the discourse of human rights and international law and replaced it with that of law and order, th...
Oct 18, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Press Watch Press Watch
Since September 11, Thomas Friedman has been in fine form. In his New York Times column, he has composed a letter for George W. Bush to send to Osama bin Laden, urged Vladimir Put...
Oct 18, 2001 / Michael Massing