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June 2, 2003 Issue
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Editorial
Nation Note
Congratulations to the Nation circulation staff, Art Stupar, Michelle O'Keefe and Inga Knets, who have won a Gold Award from Circulation Management magazine.
Letter From Ground Zero
During the cold war, nuclear strategic doctrine was riven by a fundamental contradiction.
Paying for Apartheid
Two major lawsuits--filed in the United States against multinational corporations including GM, IBM and Citigroup for aiding and abetting apartheid--are at a critical junctu...
The Judiciary Wars
Senate Democrats, who were so divided on the war and tax cuts, are holding together impressively to stop the Worst of the Worst of President Bush's judicial nominees.
WMD? MIA
When Bush (sans flight suit) delivered a photo-op victory speech to the men and women of the USS Abraham Lincoln, he solemnly noted, "We've begun the search for hidden chemi...
Shaking the Kingdom
The suicide attacks in Riyadh, which Saudi officials blamed on Al Qaeda, were barbarous acts.
Column
Saving Private Lynch: Take 2
In the 1998 film Wag the Dog, political operatives employ special editing techniques to create phony footage that will engender public sympathy for a manufactured war.
Who Framed John Fund?
So the right-wing journalist John Fund may not be a model citizen, but contrary to the implications of many left journalists and gossip columnists, he's likely not the kind ...
Bah, Humbug
I wish it had been sex, maybe some of that hot "man on dog" action that Senator Rick Santorum is so keen on chatting about. But let me not be picky.
Letters
Letters
Steve Early and Our Readers and Larry Cohen
Feature
The New Campus Raids
On February 26 the small town of Moscow, Idaho, saw more commotion than it had since a truck camper exploded in a vacant lot last September. While the town was still sleepin...
Dare Call It Treason
Few traditions are more American than freedom of speech and the right to dissent.
We Are the Patriots
Americans who oppose the Cheney-Bush junta demonstrate sanity, not cowardice.
Books & the Arts
Magnificent Obsessions
This week, all true movie lovers will rush to see a violent and fantastic special-effects thriller, in which a character endowed with uncanny powers rips through the veil of...
The New Yorker Goes to War
In its first issue after the fall of the World Trade Center, The New Yorker published a handful of short reaction pieces by John Updike, Jonathan Franzen and others a...
Dare Call It Treason
Few traditions are more American than freedom of speech and the right to dissent.
We Are the Patriots
Americans who oppose the Cheney-Bush junta demonstrate sanity, not cowardice.
