A Former Fraternity President Deals With the Nuclear Proliferation Issue A Former Fraternity President Deals With the Nuclear Proliferation Issue
Though Bush intends to drop the missile treaty, He's happy that this Putin guy's so neat, he Will prove to be the nicest sort of Roosky. So just relax, and crack yourself a br...
Jun 21, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Family Values Forever Family Values Forever
In the marriage movement conservatives and centrists find a home together.
Jun 21, 2001 / Feature / Judith Stacey
The Ground Beneath My Feet The Ground Beneath My Feet
In the summer of 1986 I was traveling in Nicaragua, working on the book of reportage that was published six months later as The Jaguar Smile. It was the seventh anniversary of th...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Salman Rushdie
Forward to the Past Forward to the Past
Most of the time I think of gay rights, women's emancipation and the decline of male dominance as irreversible historical processes, blah blah, driven as they are by powerful mat...
Jun 21, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Stopping at a Red Light Stopping at a Red Light
Nancy Chan is a postfeminist icon of sorts. The ultimate lady entrepreneur, Chan--the title character of the popular serial Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, catalogued ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Leah Platt
The Beat The Beat
SENATE SHUFFLE It was a remarkably different Senate that convened following Vermonter Jim Jeffords's switch from Republican to Independent status. The Jeffords jump did more than ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Column / John Nichols
Building to Win Building to Win
In the progressive playbook for 2001, labor is called on to assume a leading role.
Jun 21, 2001 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel
ACT UP Goes Global ACT UP Goes Global
An early US AIDS group employs direct action to oppose injustice everywhere.
Jun 21, 2001 / Feature / Richard Kim
In Fact… In Fact…
FIRST AMENDMENT BEDFELLOWS Every once in a while it behooves this 135-year-old journal (136 on July 5!) to remind ourselves that, like the broken clock that is right twice a day,...
Jun 21, 2001 / The Editors
Who’ll Defend Against Missile Defense? Who’ll Defend Against Missile Defense?
Stanford, California Arriving to record a television debate at the Hoover Institution here a few months ago, I found the personnel of the preceding show still standing aro...
Jun 21, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens