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Interview with Senator Jon Corzine Interview with Senator Jon Corzine

Corzine: You set the right context.

Feb 21, 2002 / Feature / William Greider

A Stealth Attack on Freedom of the Press A Stealth Attack on Freedom of the Press

The Federal Communications Commission is presently conducting an inquiry--a "rulemaking"--to determine whether to relax, or even to eliminate, the remaining few regulations that ...

Feb 21, 2002 / Feature / Robert W. McChesney and Mark Crispin Miller

Unhappy Anniversary Unhappy Anniversary

The McLaughlin Group is about to "celebrate" its twentieth anniversary. We might as well "celebrate" the discovery of anthrax. The show flatters itself--and its corporate ...

Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

Letters Letters

BRIDEFARE OF FRANKENSTEIN Minneapolis Katha Pollitt ["$hotgun Weddings," Feb. 4] makes many very excellent points about the horrors of "bridefare," but she...

Feb 21, 2002 / Our Readers

Better Safe…? Better Safe…?

In my last column, I called the expansion of profiling that has occurred since September 11 "equal opportunity." I meant it ironically, but a surprising number of people took me ...

Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

In Cold Type In Cold Type

Some magazines have an identity problem, and some don't. The New York Review of Books doesn't, as you may have noticed. It's relentlessly highbrow, which is how we like it. For t...

Feb 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

Denmark Vesey: A New Verdict Denmark Vesey: A New Verdict

A historian questions whether he led a slave revolt, but his heroism still stands.

Feb 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

Campaign Finance Reform Campaign Finance Reform

We're told that this campaign reform is not The end-all of the sleaziness we've got. But it must have some worthwhile changes in it If Tom DeLay and Hastert are agin it.

Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Not Betsy Rosses Not Betsy Rosses

For a while I thought about designing a flag. Something bigger, blurrier than "nation." I imagined a hovering planet on a field of blue, and "United We Stand" could be written un...

Feb 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eileen Myles

The Base Camp of Christendom The Base Camp of Christendom

Pat Buchanan surely holds the record for the greatest impact on a presidential election with the fewest votes. With less than 0.43 percent of the tally nationally, he still manag...

Feb 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Philip A. Klinkner

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