In Cold Type In Cold Type
haven't done much mental spring cleaning because so much of the last month has been taken up with brooding and spewing about the crisis in the Middle East; no doubt the coming mon...
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
Justice Can’t Be Done in Secret Justice Can’t Be Done in Secret
Why public and press have a right to witness military tribunal proceedings.
May 23, 2002 / Feature / Edward J. Klaris
The Warning Game The Warning Game
The question is not the 1970s cliché, What did the President know and when did he know it? The appropriate query is, What did US intelligence know--and what did the Pre...
May 23, 2002 / David Corn
September 11 Questions September 11 Questions
George W. Bush, it is true, did not create the FBI's smug, insular, muscle-bound bureaucracy or the CIA's well-known penchant for loopy spy tips and wrongheaded geopolitical analy...
May 23, 2002 / The Editors
Knowledge (and Power) Knowledge (and Power)
For Senator Clinton to flourish a copy of the New York Post--the paper that has called her pretty much everything from Satanic to Sapphist--merely because it had the pungent headli...
May 23, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
A Solution at Last A Solution at Last
Likud says it does not anticipate
That Palestinians will have a state.
So they, in turn, are meant to stop this shrying,
And try to make their peace with occupying.
May 16, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
DC’s Virtual Panopticon DC’s Virtual Panopticon
A camera system in the nation's capital is making civil libertarians nervous.
May 16, 2002 / Feature / Christian Parenti
Homeland Security X 50 Homeland Security X 50
State officials rush to declare their own versions of the "war on terror."
Letter From Italy Letter From Italy
From Padua's Piazza Insurrezione, where I was standing at 11 in the morning on April 16, the general strike--Italy's first in twenty years--looked and sounded like a great success...
May 16, 2002 / Feature / Joanne Barkan
Israel and ‘Anti-Semitism’ Israel and ‘Anti-Semitism’
Right in the wake of House majority leader Dick Armey's explicit call for several million Palestinians to be booted out of the West Bank, and East Jerusalem and Gaza as well, c...
May 16, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn