Pre-empting Protest Pre-empting Protest
The Peace Corps is feeling the fallout from Bush Administration policies.
May 16, 2003 / Feature / Sasha Polakow-Suransky
Jokes in the News Jokes in the News
Sociologist Herbert Gans has a good idea. "What if the news media reported the best of the monologue material as well as the currently circulating political jokes and connected t...
May 15, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Campaign Contortions 2004 Campaign Contortions 2004
Introducing a new feature of this web column: Campaign Contortions '04. Politicians often find themselves in tight spots. They have to take stands ...
May 15, 2003 / David Corn
Magnificent Obsessions Magnificent Obsessions
This week, all true movie lovers will rush to see a violent and fantastic special-effects thriller, in which a character endowed with uncanny powers rips through the veil of il...
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Misuses of Allegory The Misuses of Allegory
Is José Saramago an anti-Semite?
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans
The New Yorker Goes to War The New Yorker Goes to War
In its first issue after the fall of the World Trade Center, The New Yorker published a handful of short reaction pieces by John Updike, Jonathan Franzen and others about the h...
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
The New Campus Raids The New Campus Raids
On February 26 the small town of Moscow, Idaho, saw more commotion than it had since a truck camper exploded in a vacant lot last September. While the town was still sleeping, ...
May 15, 2003 / Feature / Jungwon Kim
Letter From Baghdad Letter From Baghdad
The failure to provide for postwar needs has deepened distrust of US intentions.
May 15, 2003 / Feature / Steve Negus
Dare Call It Treason Dare Call It Treason
Few traditions are more American than freedom of speech and the right to dissent.
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner