Inside Baghdad Inside Baghdad
Iraqis, exhausted by years of sanctions and oppression, just want it all to end.
Mar 20, 2003 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
These United States These United States
John Leonard edited and wrote the introduction to These United States: Portraits of America (Nation Books).
Mar 20, 2003 / Feature / John Leonard
‘The Inland Empire’ ‘The Inland Empire’
It lacks beaches, but it does have the most mixed neighborhoods in California.
Mar 20, 2003 / Feature / Mike Davis
Seeking a New Globalism in Chiapas Seeking a New Globalism in Chiapas
Opponents of the neoliberal model are demanding a new social contract.
Mar 20, 2003 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Germline Warfare Germline Warfare
A most remarkable event occurred in the weeks preceding the June 2000 announcement of the completion of the first draft of the human genome DNA code: One of the leaders of the ...
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ralph Brave
Against the Genetic Grain Against the Genetic Grain
I first heard of Jon Beckwith in the mid-1970s, in a question framed by my genetics professor: Why would anyone willfully disrupt a research program designed to collect useful ...
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Marks
Reading Leonardo Reading Leonardo
In 1906, the French savant Pierre Duhem published a three-volume work on Leonardo as scientist under the innocuous title Études sur Leonard de Vinci. It was the work's s...
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
‘For the Monkey’ ‘For the Monkey’
When James Agee wrote in these pages sixty years ago, he often complained of the paltriness of this or that movie, as judged against the events of the day.
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Urgent Antiwar Activism–UPDATED Urgent Antiwar Activism–UPDATED
George W. Bush has launched war with Iraq, a war that is unnecessary, unwise and illegal. In response, a wave of angry antiwar protests began to roll across Europe and the Middle...
Mar 20, 2003 / Peter Rothberg