What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Though there have been scattered signs of renewed interest in Dwight Macdonald--a biography in 1994, a collection of letters in 2002--all but a fraction of his own writing mold...
Feb 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Shainin
Against the Israeli Academic Boycott Against the Israeli Academic Boycott
"Among the Judenrat wannabes is your old friend and mine, Neve Gordon," wrote a Haifa University professor in one of his articles.
Feb 14, 2003 / Feature / Neve Gordon
Bush’s Presidential Malpractice Bush’s Presidential Malpractice
If a doctor handed you a strong medication--saying you had no choice but to swallow it--but didn't talk to you about the host of new ailments and problems t...
Feb 14, 2003 / David Corn
Voices of the Street Voices of the Street
Even before the crucial February 14 meeting of the Security Council (after this issue went to press), a significant milestone was reached in the form of the proposal by France,...
Feb 13, 2003 / The Editors
Filibustering on Estrada Filibustering on Estrada
Few of George W. Bush's judicial nominees have generated as much opposition as has Miguel Estrada.
Feb 13, 2003 / John Nichols
Republic or Empire? Republic or Empire?
As the senior American diplomat in Baghdad during Desert Shield, I advocated a muscular US response to Saddam's brutal annexation of Kuwait in flagrant violation of the United ...
Feb 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Joseph Wilson
Back to Segregation Back to Segregation
Sit in classrooms, eat in lunchrooms, romp on playgrounds and wander the hallways in randomly selected public schools in America: It's right here, in the nation's increasingly ...
Feb 13, 2003 / Gary Orfield and Susan Eaton
The Supermax Solution The Supermax Solution
The billboard at the east entrance to the remote rural village of Tamms, Illinois, reads "Tamms: The First Super Max," and below, in lowercase letters, "a good place to live." ...
Feb 13, 2003 / Regan Good
We Speak Not of Osama We Speak Not of Osama
NOTE: Because of an editorial error, last week's poem was incorrectly printed. This is a corrected version. Our apologies to Calvin Trillin (and to Cole Porter). --The Editors
Feb 13, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Code Orange Code Orange
The whole sad, messy world was on Code Orange alert on the day I left for England.
Feb 13, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams