The Press and Private Lynch The Press and Private Lynch
The Pentagon was selling a patriotic tale. It found many eager buyers.
Jun 19, 2003 / Feature / Daphne Eviatar
The Ballad of Private Lynch The Ballad of Private Lynch
Preferring death to getting caught, She emptied weapons as she fought. Though shot and stabbed she didn't flinch. She battled on, did Private Lynch. Or did she?
Jun 19, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
We’re Shocked, Shocked! We’re Shocked, Shocked!
It's hard to choose which deserves the coarser jeer: the excited baying in the press about the nondiscovery of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, or the wailing about the 3-t...
Jun 5, 2003 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Are We Safer? Are We Safer?
This article is an expanded version of Stephen F. Cohen's commentary in the May 5 issue.
May 19, 2003 / Editorial / Stephen F. Cohen
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
Bringing the War Home Bringing the War Home
In the name of fighting terrorism, the Army has established a domestic command.
May 8, 2003 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
The Decline and Fall of American Journalism The Decline and Fall of American Journalism
As a million Shiite pilgrims streamed toward Karbala shouting, "No to America, no to Saddam, no to tyranny, no to Israel!" can't you just imagine the plash of complacent I Told...
Apr 24, 2003 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Are We Safer? Are We Safer?
The Bush Administration and its cheerleaders in the media are claiming that the "remarkable success" of the US war in Iraq proves its opponents were "spectacularly wrong"--even...
Apr 17, 2003 / Editorial / Stephen F. Cohen
The US vs. the UK The US vs. the UK
A comparison of media coverage of the Iraq war.
Apr 11, 2003 / Feature / Russ Baker
Hour of Media Shame Hour of Media Shame
One casualty of the war on Iraq has been the image of the Western media.
Apr 11, 2003 / Feature / Kanak Mani Dixit