Bush’s Faux Peace Plan for the Middle East Bush’s Faux Peace Plan for the Middle East
Here's a question for George W. Bush. Do you believe your June 24 speech on the Middle East crisis would give a Palestinian living in a refugee camp--perhap...
Jun 25, 2002 / David Corn
Clarification Clarification
Readers of Andrew Sullivan's website may have noticed a series of items about my piece "Attack of the Homocons," which appeared in The Nation's July 1 issue.
Jun 25, 2002 / Richard Goldstein
Denied Permission to Sue, Feingold Still Pushes ABM Treaty Fight Denied Permission to Sue, Feingold Still Pushes ABM Treaty Fight
The Senate Ethics Committee has denied US Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wi., permission to join a lawsuit that asks the federal courts to clarify whether it was appropriate for President ...
Jun 21, 2002 / John Nichols
Islam’s Divided Crescent Islam’s Divided Crescent
On September 23, 2001, midpoint between the horrific events of September 11 and the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, the New York Times ran an intriguing headline. "Forget the...
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Anthony Arnove
Jefferson’s Patsy? Jefferson’s Patsy?
No one has contributed more to the United States than James Madison. He was the principal architect of the Constitution, the brilliant theorist who, more than any other single ind...
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carl T. Bogus
Aid–Let’s Get Real Aid–Let’s Get Real
The Africa trip of Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Irish rock star Bono produced a bumper harvest of photo ops and articles about aid to Africa. Unfortunately, media coverage ...
Jun 20, 2002 / Salih Booker and William Minter
Framed by the FBI Framed by the FBI
The $4.4 million damages award in June against FBI agents and Oakland police for violating the constitutional rights of environmental activists Darryl Cherney and Judi Bari, wrong...
Jun 20, 2002 / James X. Dempsey
Riders on the Storm Riders on the Storm
Dread ripples through me as I listen to a phone message from our manager saying that we (The Doors) have another offer of huge amounts of money if we would just allow one of our s...
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Densmore
Union Blues at Wal-Mart Union Blues at Wal-Mart
Attempts to organize are squelched by a flying column of unionbusters.
Jun 20, 2002 / Feature / John Dicker
Too Much Monkey Business Too Much Monkey Business
I received the news of paleontologist and popular science writer Stephen Jay Gould's death, at age 60, in the week I was reading Jonathan Marks's new book on genetics, human evolu...
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Micaela di Leonardo