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
Forum: Replies to Bronfenbrenner Forum: Replies to Bronfenbrenner
Responses by Adolph Reed Jr., Kim Moody, Andrew E. Stern, Jorge Mancillas, Jennifer Gordon, Sherrod Brown, Bruce Colburn and Nelson Lichtenstein.
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Various Contributors
Let’s Get Organized Let’s Get Organized
When The Red Queen boasts in Through the Looking-Glass that in her country, "it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place," she could have been talking about tod...
Aug 23, 2001 / The Editors
‘Nation’ Notes ‘Nation’ Notes
We regret the loss of two valued contributors. Richard Cloward, for forty-seven years a professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work, was author of such influentia...
Aug 23, 2001 / The Editors
Nothing Could Be Finer in North Carolina Nothing Could Be Finer in North Carolina
William Kristol claims that Senator Jesse Helms's departure at the end of his term represents "the end of an era." We can only hope. Helms has championed an odious brand of cons...
Aug 23, 2001 / The Editors