Mean Green Job Machine Mean Green Job Machine
The presidential campaigns and their armies of consultants are well aware that a jittery American public yearns for jobs.
May 6, 2004 / Paula DiPerna
Bhopal’s Legacy Bhopal’s Legacy
Every December for the past nineteen years, marchers in Bhopal, India, have paraded an effigy of Warren Anderson through town and burned it. Anderson is despised because he was...
May 6, 2004 / Mark Hertsgaard
Stonewalling on Wilson Stonewalling on Wilson
The publication of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's book, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity, affords a fresh opportuni...
May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / David Corn
Election Matters Election Matters
The peeling-gilt Aladdin Theatre, in a working-class neighborhood across the river from downtown Portland, generally draws rock acts a little too funky or faded to fill the cit...
May 6, 2004 / David Sarasohn
The Horror of Abu Ghraib The Horror of Abu Ghraib
"Abu Ghraib prison was used for torture in Saddam's time.
May 6, 2004 / The Editors
All in the Family? All in the Family?
Despite decades of battering by divorce and the proliferation of single-parent households, the family remains a source of inexhaustible fascination.
May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz
Happy 30th Anniversary Discovery/The Nation Happy 30th Anniversary Discovery/The Nation
Blindness and Transparency I can't say. Is it better to close your eyes, or to go unseen?
May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors
Evidence of Things Not Seen Evidence of Things Not Seen
My father and most of my uncles fought in World War II. I grew up in the shadow of the war.
May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Chris Hedges
On the Selection (and De-Selection) of a Baathist General From the Republican Guard to Pacify the Populace, Using American Weapons, Or, Pick of the Week On the Selection (and De-Selection) of a Baathist General From the Republican Guard to Pacify the Populace, Using American Weapons, Or, Pick of the Week
By smashing evil-doers flat, we've said, This war has changed Iraq forevermore. So why is it that Kurds and Shiites start Imagining they've seen this all before?
May 6, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Show & Tell in Abu Ghraib Show & Tell in Abu Ghraib
What are the thousand words, I wonder, that are worth the pictures of grinning US soldiers sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison?
May 6, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt