SARS and Inequality SARS and Inequality
Over the past few months, yet another epidemic has come to trouble our unhappy world. Shortly after SARS was identified, the entire globe was put on notice.
May 8, 2003 / Paul Farmer
McCarthy’s Secret Show McCarthy’s Secret Show
Victor Navasky's Naming Names (Hill & Wang) was recently reissued in paperback with a new afterword.
May 8, 2003 / Victor Navasky
Dean’s No Wellstone Dean’s No Wellstone
Lately, presidential contender Howard Dean has been likening himself to the late Senator Paul Wellstone.
May 8, 2003 / Jim Farrell
Scandal on Scandal Scandal on Scandal
The best names in Wall Street, who besmirched themselves with double-dealing stock-market scandals, were finally "punished" recently, and the miscreants could not contain their...
May 8, 2003 / The Editors
Media Merger Mania Media Merger Mania
On June 2, the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on whether to relax the rules for owning American news media. Further relaxing of the rules is the absolute ...
May 8, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Put Families First All Call Day Put Families First All Call Day
More than 1 million low-income Americans have lost or will soon lose government-subsidized healthcare, recent reports estimate, as states slash funding to contain spiraling defic...
May 7, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
The Only Law West of the Tigris The Only Law West of the Tigris
"We have ways to make you talk."
May 6, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Blair Misses War Bounce Blair Misses War Bounce
GLASGOW -- The red shirts worn by activists with the Scottish Socialist Party featured the phrase "Axis of Evil," a reference to President Bush's identification of nations that we...
May 6, 2003 / John Nichols
The Unconquerable World The Unconquerable World
Violence, Hannah Arendt said, destroys power. The United States is moving quickly down this path.
May 6, 2003 / Feature / Jonathan Schell