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Terrorism as Normalcy Terrorism as Normalcy

Gangbangers with dirty bombs! Now we're talking. The big news about the latest suspected terror bomber is not that he now calls himself Al Muhajir but that he was formerly Jos&...

Jun 13, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Classroom Consciousness Classroom Consciousness

In mid-December, 2,500 teenagers walked out of their Philadelphia public high school classrooms and into the city's intersections.

Jun 10, 2002 / Feature / Alissa Quart

Bush’s New Dept.: Rushing for Security or Politics? Bush’s New Dept.: Rushing for Security or Politics?

After September 11, the President of the United States told budget director Mitch Daniels there would be three conditions under which a deficit would be acc...

Jun 10, 2002 / David Corn

Red Over Green Party Moves Red Over Green Party Moves

Minnesota can be considered a veritable mecca for insurgent third parties. Its governor is maverick independent Jesse Ventura.

Jun 7, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper

Letters Letters

NOT AN APOLOGIST FOR ISRAEL Brookline, Mass. His justifiable zeal to defend Palestinian rights leads Alexander Cockburn to call me an apologist for "policie...

Jun 6, 2002 / Alexander Cockburn, Raffi Khatchadourian, Jason Leopold, and Our Readers

Cheney’s Head: An Explanation Cheney’s Head: An Explanation

One mystery I've tried to disentangle: Why Cheney's head is always at an angle. He tries to come on straight, and yet I can't Help notice that his head is at a slant. When Ch...

Jun 6, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

A mushroom cloud in black and white

The Growing Nuclear Peril The Growing Nuclear Peril

A more virulent nuclear era has superseded the perils of the cold war.

Jun 6, 2002 / Feature / Jonathan Schell

End the Nuclear Danger: An Urgent Call End the Nuclear Danger: An Urgent Call

A DECADE after the end of the cold war, the peril of nuclear destruction is mounting. The great powers have refused to give up nuclear arms, other countries are producing them and...

Jun 6, 2002 / Feature / Jonathan Schell, David Cortright, and Randall Caroline Forsberg

Testing Times in Higher Ed Testing Times in Higher Ed

The SAT has been on the ropes lately. The University of California system has threatened to quit using the test for its freshman admissions, arguing that the exam has done more ha...

Jun 6, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Peter Sacks

A Proposal to American Labor A Proposal to American Labor

Let's create "open-source unions," and welcome millions into the movement.

Jun 6, 2002 / Feature / Joel Rogers and Richard B. Freeman

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