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WE SHINE FOR ALL Chicago Your magazine remains a beacon of hope for all of us, even those who revile you for your progressive values--because we all lose...

Oct 4, 2001 / Our Readers

Indispensable Indispensable

(An old Nat "King" Cole song, as sung by Rudy "King" Giuliani) Indispensable, that's what I am. I'm an icon now, like Uncle Sam. I'm the rock this town is built up...

Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin

NYC’s Mayoral Muddle NYC’s Mayoral Muddle

In our August 20 issue we endorsed Mark Green, a lifelong liberal who has been running as a liberal centrist, for mayor of New York City. Two weeks before a runoff election aga...

Oct 4, 2001 / Michael Tomasky

All in the Name of Security All in the Name of Security

The Administration is using September 11 to curtail our civil liberties.

Oct 4, 2001 / Feature / Bruce Shapiro

Letter From Ground Zero: October 4, 2001 Letter From Ground Zero: October 4, 2001

Our own ‘phony war.’

Oct 4, 2001 / Jonathan Schell

The Clash of Ignorance The Clash of Ignorance

Labels like "Islam" and "the West" serve only to confuse us about a disorderly reality.

Oct 4, 2001 / Feature / Edward W. Said

Season’s Greetings Season’s Greetings

Telluride, Toronto and After For folks involved in film, seasonal clocks can be set by the annual confluence of international film festivals (Telluride, Toronto, New York, Edinb...

Oct 4, 2001 / Books & the Arts / B. Ruby Rich

Where Are the Women? Where Are the Women?

Are there any people on earth more wretched than the women of Afghanistan? As if poverty, hunger, disease, drought, ruined cities and a huge refugee crisis weren't bad enou...

Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Policy Profiteers Policy Profiteers

Battling the war profiteers of World War I, Robert La Follette reminded America that "wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism." The progressive senato...

Oct 4, 2001 / John Nichols

Press Watch Press Watch

Of all the programs I've seen on Afghanistan, not one was more chilling than Beneath the Veil, an hourlong documentary that has appeared frequently on CNN. Its narrator, Saira ...

Oct 4, 2001 / Michael Massing

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