Letters Letters
IF I HAD A HAMMER... Bellevue, Wash. I agree with Katrina vanden Heuvel on the necessity of building a better infrastructure to combat the right-wing...
Aug 23, 2001 / Katrina vanden Heuvel, Victor Navasky, and Our Readers
We Are the World We Are the World
At 5 o'clock in the morning, the radio alarm begins to blare the news. The United States is threatening to pull out of the World Conference Against Racism if the conversati...
Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Sultan’s Brother Does a Service to Humanity The Sultan’s Brother Does a Service to Humanity
The brother of the Sultan of Brunei Set out to see how much a guy could buy, And fifteen billion's what he finally spent Before the sultan voiced some discontent. The guilt o...
Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
It’s the Real Thing: Murder It’s the Real Thing: Murder
US employers like Coca-Cola are implicated in Colombia's brutality.
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Aram Roston
Chekhov Takes Wing Chekhov Takes Wing
"Stop all printing of my play. I shall never write another one again." So wrote the frustrated young Dr. Chekhov to his publisher the morning after his new play, The Seagull, wa...
Aug 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carol Rocamora
Catchers in the Wry Catchers in the Wry
Ah, the films of summer. When they get it right, they win our hearts. A sublime treat with which to beat the heat, Ghost World deserves every bit of the praise that has been ro...
Aug 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / B. Ruby Rich
Dark Ages Ahead at the NLRB Dark Ages Ahead at the NLRB
Most Americans are probably unaware that "the Dark Ages were not all bad and the Enlightenment not all good." Or that "homosexuality [is] a sin worthy of death." Or that one of...
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols
The Sweat Behind the Shirt The Sweat Behind the Shirt
The Labor History of a Gap Sweatshirt
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Jesse Gordon
Labor of Love Labor of Love
Milwaukee's home-care workers discover each other.
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / David Glenn