Letter From Ground Zero
The United States seems to interpret the news these days through a prism of catch phrases borrowed from history.
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August 4, 2003 Issue
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Editorial
No Jobs=No Votes for Fox
Three years ago the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost its seventy-one-year grip on Mexico's presidency.
GM ‘Assistance’ for Africa
In late June, George W. Bush spoke of Africa as a famine-stricken continent where the people are unable to grow enough food for themselves.
Bush’s Africa Agenda
George W. Bush's recent tour of Africa was a series of campaign photo opportunities dressed up as a diplomatic trip.
Nigergate Thuggery
Did senior Bush officials blow the cover of a US intelligence officer working covertly in a field of vital importance to national security--and break the law--in order to st...
End the US Occupation
The test of a great nation is whether it has the capacity to own up to its mistakes and change course for the sake of the country and the world.
Feature
Books & the Arts
What Are They Reading?
I've been bashfully mute amidst the chatter over Norman Rush's new novel, Mortals, because he wasn't on the modest list of Writers I Know About.
Badlands
It's always good fun to see a boy wax romantic over the first girl to give him a handjob--and if the boy should be a black-hatted Jew, the fun is only improved.
Charlotte’s Web
In 1890 the American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a remarkable short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," about a woman--genteel, educated, with more than a casual tast...
Lady Day
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's new book, The Majesty of the Law, appears at a particularly auspicious moment. As the swing vote on and author of Grutter v.
The Bourgeois Revolutionary
Publishers, even academic presses, know that the public likes biography and cater to this taste with a stream of handsomely produced, and often quite well-written, volumes.
