Barnett Newman and the Heroic Sublime Barnett Newman and the Heroic Sublime
Henry James could not resist giving the hero of his 1877 novel The American the allegorical name "Newman," but he went out of his way to describe him as a muscular Christian, to d...
May 30, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Future Wellstone Deserves The Future Wellstone Deserves
Greens running against Democrats, and maybe giving Republicans the edge? Anyone who thinks we'll have to wait till the Bush-Gore rematch in 2004 to get into that can of worms h...
May 30, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Ghazal for Lauren Ghazal for Lauren
Sister, they say heed the hymn in your heart. You've learned you've an odd rhythm in your heart. You and I versus our brothers: pitched war. The four of us in the swim of your ...
May 30, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Leslie Chang
Attack of the Anti-Cloners Attack of the Anti-Cloners
In the past two months I have talked with many people who have a keen interest in whether the Senate will decide to ban therapeutic cloning. At a conference at a Philadelphia hosp...
May 30, 2002 / Arthur L. Caplan
Enron Metastasizes Enron Metastasizes
"Death Star," "Get Shorty," "Fat Boy"--the revelation of Enron's trading schemes in California have turned the Enron scandals virulent again.
May 30, 2002 / Robert L. Borosage
The Conspiracy Continues… The Conspiracy Continues…
Did you know that the mere act of asking what kind of warning members of the Bush Administration may have received about a 9/11-like attack is just clever hype by that sneaky l...
May 30, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
The September 11 X-Files The September 11 X-Files
On March 25, during a Pacifica radio interview, Representative Cynthia McKinney, a Georgia Democrat, said, "We know there were numerous warnings of the ...
May 30, 2002 / David Corn
Singing to Power Singing to Power
British folk-rocker Billy Bragg has to be the only popular musician who could score some airtime with a song about the global justice movement. The first single from Bragg's Engla...
May 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey
The Job Has Become Too Big for Ashcroft The Job Has Become Too Big for Ashcroft
OK, so maybe John Ashcroft and Robert Mueller are not the sharpest tools in the shed. How else to explain that, after September.
May 29, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Pass ENDA Now! Pass ENDA Now!
Twenty-seven years ago, Bella Abzug introduced the first comprehensive gay civil rights bill in the history of the Congress.
May 25, 2002 / Doug Ireland