Dispatch From Russia Dispatch From Russia
A few hours after the United States launched its first missile attack against Baghdad, I spoke to 400 students and faculty at Moscow's largest university of commerce and econom...
Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dispatch From France Dispatch From France
Following the first attack at 3 am French time, the morning papers were ready with generic "War Is Here" headlines, accompanied by full-page images of dark skies.
Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Mark Cramer
Keeping Hope Alive Keeping Hope Alive
You can be forgiven if, like me, you were a bit depressed to hear that the war had started. But this is no time to go into a funk.
Mar 25, 2003 / Editorial / William D. Hartung
Postcards From New York Postcards From New York
Among the approximately 150,000 people who took to the streets of New York on March 22 to protest the US invasion of Iraq were six Nation interns.
Mar 25, 2003 / Feature / The Nation
The Wraps Come Off Bush’s Colonialist Agenda The Wraps Come Off Bush’s Colonialist Agenda
The Bush Administration's plan to keep several hundred thousand US and British troops for years in a divided, heavily armed Muslim country will make all Americans "targets of opp...
Mar 25, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Global Dispatches Global Dispatches
The Nation elicited comment on reaction to the war against Iraq from all corners of the globe.
Mar 20, 2003 / Feature / The Nation
An American Tragedy An American Tragedy
The tragedy of America in the post-cold war era is that we have proved unequal to the responsibility that our own power placed upon us.
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
War. What Is It Good For? War. What Is It Good For?
By the time you read this, the invasion of Iraq may have begun--or it may be over.
Mar 20, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Poodle That Barked The Poodle That Barked
George Bush is supposed to be the cowboy, Tony Blair the sidekick--or, in some versions, the presidential poodle.
Mar 20, 2003 / Editorial / D.D. Guttenplan
Inside Baghdad Inside Baghdad
Iraqis, exhausted by years of sanctions and oppression, just want it all to end.
Mar 20, 2003 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill