The Gray Zone The Gray Zone
On a hot, dusty summer day in 1998, I drove with friends from Smolensk to the village of Zagor'e to meet Ivan Tvardovsky, a survivor of Stalin's forced-labor camps and the brot...
Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Lynne Viola
Letter From Iran Letter From Iran
Hope has turned to bitterness as reform efforts have been crushed by the regime.
Sep 25, 2003 / Feature / Afshin Molavi
Alan Dershowitz, Plagiarist Alan Dershowitz, Plagiarist
Let's start with a passage from Alan Dershowitz's latest book, The Case for Israel, now slithering into the upper tier of Amazon's sales charts.
Sep 25, 2003 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
A Word to George Bush On the Occasion of His Mentioning That Iraq Was Not Responsible for the Attacks on 9/11 A Word to George Bush On the Occasion of His Mentioning That Iraq Was Not Responsible for the Attacks on 9/11
You tell us, with a casual by-the-way, Iraq was not behind that awful day, As if we'd never heard your staff and you Implying just the opposite was true.
Sep 25, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Which Side Is Clark On? Which Side Is Clark On?
The media shorthand for retired Gen. Wesley Clark's much-anticipated presidential candidacy made him the "antiwar warrior," a military man fully aware of the folly of George Bu...
Sep 25, 2003 / Editorial / John Nichols
Bush the Misleader Bush the Misleader
He's still misleading. Speaking at the United Nations on September 23, George W.
Sep 25, 2003 / Editorial / The Editors
A Death in Iran A Death in Iran
When Canadian freelance photojournalist Zahra Kazemi flew to her native country of Iran last spring, little did she know that covering the student protests would be her final ass...
Sep 22, 2003 / Feature / Ladane Nasseri
The People’s House The People’s House
The people are asking for answers from the People's House.
Sep 20, 2003 / Feature / Sherrod Brown
Stretched Thin, Lied to & Mistreated Stretched Thin, Lied to & Mistreated
On the ground with US troops in Iraq.
Sep 18, 2003 / Feature / Christian Parenti
9/11/01: Where Was George? 9/11/01: Where Was George?
September 11 is often said to be the defining moment in the Bush presidency, even of modern history.
Sep 18, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman