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There is a difference it used to make, seeing three swans in this versus four in that quadrant of sky. I am not imagining. It was very large, as its effects were. Declarations ...

May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carl Phillips

McKinney Redux McKinney Redux

During the long months of post-September 11 presidential invincibility, no member of Congress climbed further out on the what-did-Bush-know-when limb than Representative Cynthia M...

May 23, 2002 / John Nichols

The Israel Lobby The Israel Lobby

On May 2 the Senate, in a vote of 94 to 2, and the House, 352 to 21, expressed unqualified support for Israel in its recent military actions against the Palestinians. The resol...

May 23, 2002 / Michael Massing

Malign Neglect Malign Neglect

Children in New York City's public schools are being shortchanged--again.

May 23, 2002 / Feature / Jonathan Kozol

Sleepless in Nightmute Sleepless in Nightmute

You may recall Insomnia as a Norwegian film made on a modest budget--do I repeat myself?--about the inner life of a morally compromised police detective. The picture enjoyed a sma...

May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Justice Can’t Be Done in Secret Justice Can’t Be Done in Secret

Why public and press have a right to witness military tribunal proceedings.

May 23, 2002 / Feature / Edward J. Klaris

Knowledge (and Power) Knowledge (and Power)

For Senator Clinton to flourish a copy of the New York Post--the paper that has called her pretty much everything from Satanic to Sapphist--merely because it had the pungent headli...

May 23, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

The Evolution of Darwinism The Evolution of Darwinism

Popular perception notwithstanding, the theory of natural selection was accepted by every serious evolutionist long before Darwin. Earlier scientists interpreted it as the cleares...

May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Hawkes

Yaqui Way of Knowledge Yaqui Way of Knowledge

Although Chicano identity has been Luis Valdez's theme since all but the earliest years of El Teatro Campesino, the guerrilla theater he founded in the 1960s, getting a clear sens...

May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hal Gelb

September 11 Questions September 11 Questions

George W. Bush, it is true, did not create the FBI's smug, insular, muscle-bound bureaucracy or the CIA's well-known penchant for loopy spy tips and wrongheaded geopolitical analy...

May 23, 2002 / The Editors

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