Fighting the Global Gag Rule Fighting the Global Gag Rule
Despite statements to the contrary, the rule is resulting in tragic circumstances for women abroad.
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Isabelle Lindenmayer
The 1932 Disarmament Conference The 1932 Disarmament Conference
A scientist looks back to the First World War and made a plea for world peace.
Aug 23, 2001 / Albert Einstein
Tulsa, 1921 Tulsa, 1921
On the 100th anniversary of the riot in that city, we commemorate the report written for this magazine by a remarkable journalist.
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / The Editors and Walter F. White
You Can Use God to Justify Anything You Can Use God to Justify Anything
The country was founded on the idea of keeping religion and politics separate--but you'd hardly know this by the way the idea of the Almighty has intruded itself into political...
Aug 21, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer
Give Peace a Chance Give Peace a Chance
Dennis Kucinich's House bill presents us with a genuinely new idea.
Aug 16, 2001 / Feature / Matt Bivens
Young Activists Unite Young Activists Unite
Durbin, South Africa, will see the coming together of a large cohort with its own pressing agenda.
Aug 16, 2001 / Feature / Bojana Stoparic
Defending DynCorp Defending DynCorp
A reply to Jason Vest's web-only article, by Anne W. Patterson.
Aug 15, 2001 / Anne W. Patterson
Merrill Table Talk Merrill Table Talk
Alfred Corn reviews Alison Lurie's Familiar Spirits.
Aug 9, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Alfred Corn
Fascism’s Face in Genoa Fascism’s Face in Genoa
Behind the police brutality observed at the G-8 summit in Italy lies the specter of Fascism.
Aug 9, 2001 / John L. Allen Jr.
Nation Notes Nation Notes
We welcome to The Nation's editorial board Tom Hayden and Lani Guinier. From his days as a seminal figure of the 1960s--an author of the Port Huron Statement, president of SDS, one of the Chicago 7 convicted (later acquitted) for inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic Convention--Hayden has been an effective progressive voice. From 1982 to 2000 he served in the California legislature as a conscience on the left and a productive legislator. Term-limited out of the State Senate, he ran for LA City Council in the recent election, losing by 369 votes. A contributor to this magazine and author of ten books, Hayden edited the forthcoming The Zapatista Reader for Nation Books. Lani Guinier had an unwanted fifteen minutes of fame in 1993 when Bill Clinton withdrew her nomination as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights after she was vilified for her scholarly writings on voting. In 1998 she became the first black woman to be named a tenured professor at Harvard Law School. She is the author, most recently, of Lifting Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback Into a New Vision of Social Justice (Simon & Schuster). FOLLOW-UP : Richard Pollak writes: There was much justified rejoicing in the environmental community in early August after the Bush EPA sided with its Clinton predecessors and ordered General Electric to dredge thousands of pounds of lethal PCBs from the Hudson River north of Albany, New York. The decision is undeniably a setback for GE, which had spent millions fighting the proposal with dubious scientific reports and a monthslong propaganda blitz in the media (see Richard Pollak, "Is GE Mightier Than the Hudson?" May 28). But dredging is at best many months, if not years, away, and any notion that it is a done deal is premature. Several other federal agencies and New York State are still assessing the draft order, which would set in motion the largest such environmental cleanup in the nation's history, at a cost to GE of some half-billion dollars. Already there's talk of scaling back the project if dredging technologies prove too disruptive to towns along the river. These are, for the most part, hard-core Republican communities with a deep distrust of the government; many residents welcomed GE's antidredging public relations campaign and now promise to put up a strong local fight against the EPA solution. This despite the fact that many of their neighbors, and wildlife, continue to suffer from a variety of disorders caused by the polychlorinated biphenyls that GE dumped into the river over three decades.
Aug 9, 2001 / The Editors