Denied Permission to Sue, Feingold Still Pushes ABM Treaty Fight Denied Permission to Sue, Feingold Still Pushes ABM Treaty Fight
The Senate Ethics Committee has denied US Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wi., permission to join a lawsuit that asks the federal courts to clarify whether it was appropriate for President ...
Jun 21, 2002 / John Nichols
Letters Letters
GOULD & SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE Cambridge, Mass. In his excellent June 17 piece on Stephen Jay Gould, John Nichols mentions the Science for the People mo...
Jun 20, 2002 / Our Readers
In Martha Stewart’s Kitchen In Martha Stewart’s Kitchen
The camera pans across the room To see what she has made: An omelette or a spring bouquet Or just an inside trade.
Jun 20, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Jewish Media Stranglehold? Jewish Media Stranglehold?
Nixon thought so; Otis Chandler doesn't. Maybe it depends on where you stand.
Jun 20, 2002 / Feature / Cliff Rothman
Ashcroft [heart] Iran Ashcroft [heart] Iran
What would the world look like if women had full human rights? If girls went to school and young women went to college in places where now they are used as household drudges an...
Jun 20, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
DYNASTIES! DYNASTIES!
How their wealth and power threaten democracy
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Phillips
Company Men Company Men
Although car chases are formulaic, they needn't be standard issue. One of the many substantial pleasures that The Bourne Identity offers is a thoughtful car chase, a loving car ch...
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
In Fact… In Fact…
FBI AND FREE SPEECH AT BERKELEY A timely reminder of the danger to civil liberties when the FBI targets dissidents comes in a riveting series of articles in the San Francisco Chronicle that describe J. Edgar Hoover's 1960s vendetta against the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley and its president, Clark Kerr. Information released under FOIA after a reporter's seventeen-year fight reveals the bureau plotted with the CIA to harass student protesters, gave false background information about Kerr to the White House and mounted a disinformation campaign against the school (see www.sfgate.com). BUSH AND FREE SPEECH AT OSU President Bush's June 14 speech on the "culture of service" at the Ohio State commencement was said by his flacks to have been inspired by Adam Smith, James Madison, Alexis de Tocqueville and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. OSU's civics lesson to grads was to tell them if they protested the President's talk they'd be arrested. When Bush arrived at the event, ten students rose and turned their backs; some were expelled by police. NOT IN OUR NAME A little-reported statement by prominent writers, actors and academics protests that the United States has "declared a war without limit and instituted stark new measures of repression." Titled "Not in Our Name," the statement enumerates US depredations against peace and human rights (see [email protected]). We reported on the founding of the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace (Brit Tzedek v'Shalom). The first meeting of the New York City chapter will be June 24, 7-9 pm, New School University, 66 West 12th Street ([email protected]).
Jun 20, 2002 / The Editors
A Second Gilded Age A Second Gilded Age
Would it be too early to sense a sudden, uncovenanted shift against the corporate ethic, if ethic is the word? I can barely turn the page of a newspaper or magazine without strikin...
Jun 20, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
The Truth on Warming The Truth on Warming
The journalist I.F. Stone used to joke that the government issues so much information every day, it can't help but let the truth slip out every once in a while. The Bush Administr...
Jun 20, 2002 / Mark Hertsgaard