Seventy-Five Thousand Protest in Washington Seventy-Five Thousand Protest in Washington
"I think the movement is beginning to wake up," Valerie Mullen, an 80-year-old anti-war activist from Vermont, exclaimed as she surveyed the swelling crowd of people protesting ag...
Apr 21, 2002 / John Nichols
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Pick: THE AMERICAN SOUL: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders.
Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
Letters Letters
Judith Butler's April 1 "Guantánamo Limbo" intelligently discusses the failure of the Geneva Conventions to take account of "prisoners of the new war" an...
Apr 18, 2002 / Judith Butler and Our Readers
Sensation Sensation
A friend and I were sitting around commiserating about the things that get to us: unloading small indignities, comparing thorns. "So there I was," she said, "sitting on the bus a...
Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams
A Survey Offering Democrats Two Responses to the Return of Al Gore A Survey Offering Democrats Two Responses to the Return of Al Gore
Al Gore is back: (1) Alas (2) Alack
Apr 18, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Big Tobacco Big Tobacco
Uncovering the industry's multibillion-dollar global smuggling network.
Apr 18, 2002 / Feature / Mark Schapiro
What Israel Has Done What Israel Has Done
Seeking to eliminate the Palestinians as a people, it is destroying their civil life.
Apr 18, 2002 / Feature / Edward W. Said
The Pull of ‘New Gravity’ The Pull of ‘New Gravity’
In an end-of-the-year column devoted to "Politics and Prose," Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic, asserted that there had been a "new gravity" and "sobriety" to American jo...
Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mordue
End Business as Usual End Business as Usual
The Enron "outrage," AFL-CIO president John Sweeney told a rapt crowd of several hundred workers at Milwaukee's Serb Memorial Hall, is "not the story of one corporation's abuses, ...
Apr 18, 2002 / David Moberg
Education of a Knife Education of a Knife
The third-year medical student held the intravenous catheter, poised to insert it into a patient's vein. Suddenly the patient asked, "Have you done this before?" As the student la...
Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Barron H. Lerner