Support for Refuseniks Support for Refuseniks
About three weeks ago, Moti Perry, an economics professor from Hebrew University, organized twenty-eight of his colleagues and together they published a letter supporting studen...
May 9, 2002 / Neve Gordon
A Voting Reform That Works Is Transforming Texas A Voting Reform That Works Is Transforming Texas
Considering the role that Florida's electoral mess played in making him president, and considering his active disinterest in reforming political processes to assure that the Flori...
May 7, 2002 / John Nichols
Crusader: Intrigue and Backstabbing In the House of Bush Crusader: Intrigue and Backstabbing In the House of Bush
It's a tale of big guns and a big gun. It's a Bush family melodrama, a story of personal connections, possible backstabbing and multiple intrigues, a Washin...
May 6, 2002 / David Corn
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare I have been on something of a Shakespeare comedy jag over the past months; I laughed all the way from Columbus, Ohio, to New York...
May 6, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Afghan Victims Deserve US Support Afghan Victims Deserve US Support
When Congress contemplates the upcoming 2002 Supplemental Appropriations bill, there's a small item that should be added to the budget: $20 million to help the Afghan people who w...
May 3, 2002 / Medea Benjamin and Jason Mark
No-Risk Electioneering No-Risk Electioneering
A news photograph of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf in a green pagaree, an ornamental turban, was proof enough that the somewhat dapper and, perhaps, truly disinterested ge...
May 3, 2002 / Andy McCord
Bad Work Bad Work
Howard Gardner, the noted education/cognition specialist, recently undertook, with two colleagues, an in-depth study of the work-related happiness of two groups of people, gene...
May 2, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
Supreme Court v. Unions Supreme Court v. Unions
The recent decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board makes it plain that the Court's majority lives in denial...
May 2, 2002 / David Bacon
Extreme Solutions Extreme Solutions
Extreme Solution I: Priests The old movies used to feature a priest walking alongside the condemned man toward the scaffold, offering last seconds of comfort, plea-barga...
May 2, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Gayness Becomes You Gayness Becomes You
Nearly fifty years ago, in Eros and Civilization, Herbert Marcuse suggested that homosexuals (then the current term) might someday--because of their "rebellion against the subjuga...
May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Martin Duberman