FCC Rejects Public Interest FCC Rejects Public Interest
Monday's 3-2 vote by the Federal Communications Commission to remove barriers to corporate consolidation of control over the media capped a process that, even by the standards of ...
Jun 3, 2003 / John Nichols
Burying Torture Burying Torture
The great journalist and former Nation Washington editor I.F. Stone, who often saw what others missed, once told David Halberstam that the Washington Post was an exciting paper t...
Jun 3, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
GOP Pot Attack Stalls GOP Pot Attack Stalls
House Republicans anticipated smooth sailing for legislation to reauthorize the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Jun 2, 2003 / Feature / Daniel Forbes
Take Back America! Take Back America!
The Campaign for America's Future, a broad coalition organized to revitalize a progressive agenda for the US, is staging a national conference in Washington, DC this week from J...
Jun 2, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Saturday at Jimmy’s Uptown Saturday at Jimmy’s Uptown
It was conceived as the beginning of a conversation about how to raise issues of social and economic justice through music, journalism, literature, TV, theatre and film. The ...
Jun 2, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Pentagon Aims Guns at Lynch Reports Pentagon Aims Guns at Lynch Reports
It is one thing when the talk-show bullies who shamelessly smeared the last President, even as he attacked the training camps of Al Qaeda, now term it anti-American or even treas...
May 30, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Doing it Right Doing it Right
"Running for President? Health Care Better Be Your Priority" is the hard-to-miss slogan on a poster in the Des Moines, Iowa airport. Dreamt up by the Service Employees Internatio...
May 30, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Doing Clinton: Good for Business Doing Clinton: Good for Business
A few weeks ago I argued that rightwing talk show hosts like Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Joe Scarborough could go out of business if they didn't have Bill and Hillary to kick...
May 29, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Southern Man Southern Man
In 1900 Maurice Denis painted a large canvas titled Hommage à Cézanne, which shows the esteemed master next to one of his paintings and surrounded by a crowd of a...
May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
A Chef in Love A Chef in Love
As the bombs cease falling on Baghdad, and the world argues over an American presence in Iraq, the publication of Diana Abu-Jaber's funny, thoughtful second novel, Crescent, se...
May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Charlotte Innes