Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
Robert Kaplan is a hugely well-informed, indefatigable journalist who combines firsthand reporting, mostly from poor, badly governed or ungoverned countries, with wide reading ...
Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
The Ballad of Private Lynch The Ballad of Private Lynch
Preferring death to getting caught, She emptied weapons as she fought. Though shot and stabbed she didn't flinch. She battled on, did Private Lynch. Or did she?
Jun 19, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Privatizing Medicare Privatizing Medicare
The Medicare bills passed by the Senate Finance Committee on June 12 and the House Ways and Means Committee on June 17 move the thirty-eight-year-old social insurance program o...
Jun 19, 2003 / Trudy Lieberman
Anonymous Detentions Ruled Legal Anonymous Detentions Ruled Legal
"Citizens have a compelling interest in ensuring that their government does not abuse one of its most awesome powers, the power to arrest and jail."
Jun 17, 2003 / Feature / The Nation
New Law Assists Political Intimidation New Law Assists Political Intimidation
An unnecessary new law is used to undermine legitimate dissent.
Jun 15, 2003 / Feature / Daniel Forbes
Profits at Gunpoint Profits at Gunpoint
Unocal's pipeline in Burma becomes a test case in corporate responsibility.
Jun 12, 2003 / Feature / Daphne Eviatar
Chipping Away at Roe Chipping Away at Roe
Congress has once again passed a bill banning "partial-birth abortion." It's not the first time. President Clinton vetoed similar bans in 1996 and 1997.
Jun 12, 2003 / Wendy Chavkin
A Rebuke to Ashcroft A Rebuke to Ashcroft
"We have to hold these people until we find out what is going on." According to a report issued June 2 by the Justice Department's own Inspector General, that's what Michael Ch...
Jun 12, 2003 / David Cole