Dishing up Christianity Dishing up Christianity
In 1992 Congress passed a law designed to increase the diversity of television programming and to amplify traditionally underrepresented voices.
Feb 6, 2003 / Feature / David Enrich
Media Democracy’s Moment Media Democracy’s Moment
Suddenly, there are serious discussions about the danger of monopoly power.
Feb 6, 2003 / Feature / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
What Liberal Media? What Liberal Media?
The right is working the refs. And it's working.
Feb 6, 2003 / Feature / Eric Alterman
A ‘Good Man’ Is Not So Hard to Find A ‘Good Man’ Is Not So Hard to Find
I was standing in line for Bowling for Columbine in Brussels not long ago with two writer/editor friends, when a 15-or-so-year-old Belgian boy in front of us turned around and ...
Feb 6, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman
Poetry Makes Nothing Happen? Ask Laura Bush Poetry Makes Nothing Happen? Ask Laura Bush
So Laura Bush will not, after all, be discussing the works of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes with a selected group of American poets at the White House on Fe...
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
We Speak Not of Osama We Speak Not of Osama
(With apologies to Cole Porter, the master, who wrote "My Heart Belongs to Daddy")
Feb 6, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Columbia Down Columbia Down
Like the perennial quest for a "Star Wars" antimissile system, the space shuttle has never been an entirely rational program.
Feb 6, 2003 / Wayne Biddle
Resist War and Empire Resist War and Empire
With up to 200,000 American and British combat troops already stationed in or on their way to the Persian Gulf area, war with Iraq looks increasingly imminent.
Feb 6, 2003 / Michael T. Klare
Bush’s Big Bad Budget Bush’s Big Bad Budget
George W. Bush's budget sketches the precipitous decline in our fortunes on his watch, while blurring the full costs of his shameless pander to privilege.
Feb 6, 2003 / Robert L. Borosage