We’re All Ears We’re All Ears
What sticks in my mind more than any particular accomplishment of the supersecret National Security Agency is its mammoth size. Only a few miles from my home, I now know, exists a...
May 31, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder
We’re All Ears We’re All Ears
An accomplished journalist weaves a narrative about the NSA that includes sympathetic portraits of key players.
May 31, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder
The Left Taught Him How to Do It The Left Taught Him How to Do It
The leftists organizing in Vermont since the 1970s prepared the ground for James Jeffords's jump, and he never would have done it without them. In the 1970s and 1980s Democrats h...
May 31, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Godard and Company Godard and Company
It was the first Cannes Film Festival of the new century, but it felt more like an end than a beginning, as the past returned, in film after film, with weight and insistency. This...
May 31, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Leslie Camhi
Red Star Over Romania Red Star Over Romania
When, at 13, my rebellious move toward the left coincided with the emerging cold war, a teasing Bronx cousin took to calling me "Ana Pauker." Some boys in my school in the heart o...
May 31, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Susan Brownmiller
The Vandals Repeat Did Not Take the Handles The Vandals Repeat Did Not Take the Handles
Wonder why it took ex-Republican Jim Jeffords to alert the national media to the fact that the Bush Administration is run out of the extremist end of the GOP? Writing from inside...
May 31, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Clean Elections at Stake Clean Elections at Stake
For government to represent the interests of average people, public officials have to be liberated from their dependence on private interests to finance their campaigns.
May 29, 2001 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry
De-Foucaulding the GOP De-Foucaulding the GOP
De-Foucaulding the GOP New York City Win McCormack's sophisticated examination of conservative tactics in the last election was fascinating ["Deconstructing the...
May 25, 2001 / Win McCormack and Our Readers
The Wind She Blows The Wind She Blows
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," some sage once wrote. Just so. As this issue went to press, the Museum of International Folk Art, a state-run insti...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Art Winslow
Southern Explosure Southern Explosure
Thirty-eight years after the bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, two of the four principals are dead, but the issues are still full of life. Thomas Blanton Jr. is ...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener