Diary of the Bridget Joneses Diary of the Bridget Joneses
If single women have been told once, they've been told a thousand times: Don't think you're ever too successful or too young to have your ovaries shrivel up and die. Use 'em or...
Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ashley Nelson
Who Will Tell the People? Who Will Tell the People?
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers is Daniel Ellsberg's story of his personal journey from being in the early 1960s a "dedicated cold warrior" who supported A...
Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Rudenstine
Fixing the Rotten Corporate Barrel Fixing the Rotten Corporate Barrel
States grant corporate charters; they should start taking some of them away.
Dec 5, 2002 / Feature / John Cavanagh and Jerry Mander
Hydrogen: Empowering the People Hydrogen: Empowering the People
A new source of energy offers a way to wrench power from ever-fewer hands.
Dec 5, 2002 / Feature / Jeremy Rifkin
An Imperial Moment An Imperial Moment
In previous times of war fever, clear voices have called for a return to US ideals.
Dec 5, 2002 / Feature / Jonathan Schell and John Maxwell Hamilton
Lighting Labor’s Fire Lighting Labor’s Fire
While we wait for labor law reform, here are a few things unions can do.
Dec 5, 2002 / Feature / Thomas Geoghegan and Barbara Ehrenreich
Rawls and Us Rawls and Us
The late John Rawls was, by all accounts, a remarkably modest and generous person, much beloved by his friends and students, and profoundly uninterested in the kinds of fame an...
Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
As Miss World Turns As Miss World Turns
The war between religious fanaticism and secular modernity is fought over women's bodies.
Dec 5, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Going Down the Road Going Down the Road
On election morning, I opened the front section of the New York Times and immediately got a bad feeling. Positioned prominently on page A3 was an eye-catching and ominous ad.
Dec 5, 2002 / Jim Hightower
Nation Notes Nation Notes
The 2002 Daniel Singer Millennium Prize has been awarded to Staughton Lynd, labor historian, lawyer and longtime radical activist.
Dec 5, 2002 / The Editors