Articles

A Bipartisan Scandal A Bipartisan Scandal

Members of Congress return to Washington this week. After afall in which their tenure was characterized by unprecedentedinaction, politicians who occupy positions of public trust w...

Jan 22, 2002 / John Nichols

Enron Got Its Money’s Worth Enron Got Its Money’s Worth

One of the major falsehoods being bandied about by apologists for the Bush Administration is that while Enron may have bankrolled much of the President's political career it got no...

Jan 22, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Letters Letters

JURY DUTY--I New York City A Trial by Jury, both the book and Carl T. Bogus's review ["A Verdict on the System," Dec. 10, 2001], were interesting and insig...

Jan 17, 2002 / Michael Massing, Wallace Shawn, and Our Readers

Afghanistan by Stagelight Afghanistan by Stagelight

A review of Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul.

Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Pochoda

Harvard Raps West Harvard Raps West

As the chairman of Artemis Records, the company that released Cornel West's CD, Sketches of My Culture, I considered criticizing Cornel for his association with Lawrence Summers,...

Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Danny Goldberg

Who’s Utopian Now? Who’s Utopian Now?

Welfare reform has left America dangerously undefended against hard times.

Jan 17, 2002 / Feature / Frances Fox Piven and Barbara Ehrenreich

The Sinking of the USS Enron–A Free-Market Metaphor The Sinking of the USS Enron–A Free-Market Metaphor

The pirate ship has sunk beneath the waves. The swabs who haven't gone to wat'ry graves Row desperately, though all of them now know Their water and their food are running low...

Jan 17, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

A New Current in Palestine A New Current in Palestine

It's too soon to call it a party, but there's now a popular, independent group.

Jan 17, 2002 / Feature / Edward W. Said

Vienna: Waltz or Go-Go? Vienna: Waltz or Go-Go?

Exile is the best school of dialectics.          --Bertolt Brecht Peter Gay emigrated from Germany when he was a teenager and work...

Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter

$hotgun Weddings $hotgun Weddings

What would the government have to do to convince you to get married when you otherwise wouldn't? More than pay you $80 a month, I'll bet, the amount Wisconsin's much-ballyhooed "...

Jan 17, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

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