Articles

Israel: Into the Abyss Israel: Into the Abyss

Ariel Sharon's government is failing to use nonviolent approaches in its confrontation with the Palestinians.

Sep 6, 2001 / Neve Gordon

The Joe and Hil Follies The Joe and Hil Follies

It's a slippery slope that these two lawgivers would have us tread.

Sep 6, 2001 / Danny Goldberg

A Good Death A Good Death

Euthanasia is the right step for some people, but today the person taking that step must do so unaided.

Sep 6, 2001 / Carol Bernstein Ferry

Cleaning Up Elections Cleaning Up Elections

The Shays-Meehan bill would help reform campaign financing--but there is a much better solution.

Sep 6, 2001 / The Editors

Al, Don’t Run Al, Don’t Run

He may have been screwed out of the election, but he's still a terrible candidate.

Sep 6, 2001 / Feature / David Corn

The Dishonest Debate The Dishonest Debate

The facts about Bush's tax cuts are being kept from the public.

Sep 6, 2001 / Robert L. Borosage

Monarchs Landing and Flying Monarchs Landing and Flying

If they have come for the butterflies then bless their breaking hearts, but the young pair is looking nowhere except each other's eyes. He seems like he could carry them both over the street on great wings of grief tucked under his coat, while all around them float, like wisps of ash or the delicate prism sunlight flashing off the city glass, the orange-yellow-black-wing-flecked monarchs. Migrant, they're more than two dozen today, more long-lived than the species who keep to the localized gardens--they're barely a gram apiece, landing, holding still for the common milkweed that feeds their larvae, or balanced on bridges of plumegrass stalks and bottle-brush, wings fanning, closing, calmed by the long searchlight stems of hollyhock. If they have come for the butterflies then why is she weeping when he lifts her chin? He looks like he's holding his breath back-- or is he trying to shed tears, too? Are any left? He's got his other hand raised, waving, and almost before it stops the taxi's doors flare on both sides open. Nothing's stirring in the garden, not us, not the thinnest breeze among the flowers, yet by the time we look again they've flown.

Sep 6, 2001 / Books & the Arts / David Baker

On the Record: Toward a Union Label On the Record: Toward a Union Label

Courtney Love's plea to fellow recording artists to join her in the creation of a new musicians' guild, printed below, is the latest blow to the beleaguered "Big Five

Sep 6, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Courtney Love and Johnny Temple

Jeb vs. Janet in Florida Jeb vs. Janet in Florida

Next year's Florida gubernatorial election--which could pit presidential brother and current GOP Governor Jeb Bush against former Attorney General Janet Reno--is developing into t...

Sep 5, 2001 / John Lantigua

Dispatch From Durban Dispatch From Durban

Durban Update

Sep 5, 2001 / Feature / Charles Tanzer

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