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Another Florida Fiasco Another Florida Fiasco

The biggest story of the biggest primary election night of 2002 echoed the biggest story of the 2000 election: Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Florida Secretary of State Katherine H...

Sep 12, 2002 / John Nichols

Chile Reception Chile Reception

Walking at a good New Yorker's clip, you would need about fifteen minutes to go between Film Forum and the World Trade Center site: a straight shot down Varick Street from thre...

Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Not So Pretty Horses, Too Not So Pretty Horses, Too

William Eastlake once gave William Kittredge a piece of advice about writing as a Westerner. Never allow a publisher to put a picture of a horse on the cover of your novel: "Th...

Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Philip Connors

The Fourth Estate’s Estate The Fourth Estate’s Estate

Soon after the surrender of Nazi Germany, the reporter Martha Gellhorn made her way to Dachau. There she interviewed a recently liberated doctor who told her how the Germans im...

Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert W. Snyder

On Culturing a Union On Culturing a Union

American labor still pays lip service to the idea that it seeks "bread and roses too"--a higher standard of living, plus the chance for workers to enjoy some of the finer thing...

Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early

Going Down the Road Going Down the Road

he Powers That Be constantly try to keep the progressive majority divided: workers against environmentalists, enviros against farmers, farmers against consumers, consumers agai...

Sep 12, 2002 / Jim Hightower

Antiwar Activism Antiwar Activism

The political establishment is not united behind the Bush Administration's policy of forced "regime change" in Iraq. The rest of the world, and a good part of the American publ...

Sep 12, 2002 / The Editors

Letter to America Letter to America

My hope: empathy, compassion, the capacity to imagine that you are not unique

Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ariel Dorfman

In Fact… In Fact…

POTENTATE'S PERKS It's been known that Jack Welch is worth $900 million and that he draws a $9 million annual pension from General Electric. But it turns out that GE als...

Sep 12, 2002 / The Editors

Building a Coalition, W.-Style Building a Coalition, W.-Style

We'll talk to Germany and France, Brief Russians and Chinese, Consult with Turkey and Japan, Then do just as we please.

Sep 12, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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