Lines Beyond the Nakba Lines Beyond the Nakba
Mahmoud Darwish burst on the Arab poetic scene in the mid-1960s with the publication in Beirut of poems written while he was living in Haifa, Israel, and working as a translator ...
Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Taline Voskeritchian
Wild, Wild West Wild, Wild West
You may have read, in these pages and elsewhere [see Danny Goldberg, "Harvard Raps West," February 4], about the flap that Harvard University's president, Lawrence Summers, kicke...
Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Political Twist Political Twist
Congress returns--will the Democrats challenge Bush?
Jan 24, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols
Disabling a Civil Right Disabling a Civil Right
The Supreme Court has made a decision that is wrongheaded, and wrong.
Jan 24, 2002 / Feature / Mary Johnson
In Fact… In Fact…
WHO'S A LIAR? In a paid ad on page 12 Verso asks the question "Did the Holocaust industry's lead attorney, Burt Neuborne, lie in The Nation?" Our advertising policy carries a pre...
Jan 24, 2002 / The Editors
Bush’s Other War Bush’s Other War
Questions about Enron's links to the White House and Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force are reassuring. They mean that the nation, after the September 11 attacks, is now confident e...
Jan 24, 2002 / David Helvarg
What Young Voters Want What Young Voters Want
They're looking for help with college and a reason to believe in government.
Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Anna Greenberg
‘The Ghat of the Only World’: Agha Shahid Ali in Brooklyn ‘The Ghat of the Only World’: Agha Shahid Ali in Brooklyn
The first time that Agha Shahid Ali, the great Kashmiri poet, spoke to me about his approaching death was in April of last year. The conversation began routinely. I had telephone...
Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amitav Ghosh
Share Revenue, Save Jobs Share Revenue, Save Jobs
To the economy, September 11 now appears to have been a transient shock. Sales, confidence and the stock market plunged, but then returned. As the dead cat bounced, optimists dec...
Jan 24, 2002 / James K. Galbraith