Express
And Balanced With This Life, This Death (Genoa, the G8 and the battle in the streets)
By Ramor RyanThe walls went up around the old quarter of Genoa, enclosing the group of 8 (G8) and their cohorts.
You Evil Victim!
By Héctor ToledanoMy daughter Sandra is eight years old. She is a really funny girl.
WTC: The Construction and Destruction of a Building as Global Brand
By Miriam GreenbergThe attacks on the World Trade Center have represented two very different types of loss.
The Ever-Broadening War
By The Z.O.O.Across Europe, as in the rest of the world, a kind of obsessional speech has proliferated that attempts to resolve the enigma of September 11.
The Battle of Seattle and Beyond
By Theodore HammCommager, a historian, launched his criticisms at the outset of the cold war, a period during which freedoms of speech or association would be anything but sacrosanct. Such repression was justified
Be All That You Can Click ON!: Military Propaganda in the Information Age
By Randolph LewisThe contemporary US Armyat least the one that was being marketed to American teenagers before September 11, 2001has been selling a softer experience than the Army of yore.
Something is About to Happen
By Nick PappasAlthough it feels irrelevant to contemplate Nietzsches prophetic writings in the weeks after September 11, especially sitting where the World Trade Centers shadows used to be, it also has a reassuring effect.
Opinion: A Power Plant by Any Other Name
By Mark ReganFor awhile, back in the summer, the company that wants to build a huge new power plant on the North Brooklyn waterfront was calling itself CleanPoint Energy.
Operation Enduring Suffering: Meditations on Justice
By Rachel NeumannWe are surprised to find that we are not transformed. We have had our individual and collective moments of fear, panic, anger, and clarity.
Editorials
Michael Bloombergs recent election as Mayor establishes a very dangerous precedent: that candidates can circumvent the citys 4:1 campaign financing system, the most progressive of its kind in the nation, and fund their campaigns out of their own endless pockets.
Daggers, Airplanes, and the Lure of a Certain Garden
By Justin McGuirkOn September 12th my flight to Tehran was cancelled.