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Hey, He’s Bruce Hey, He’s Bruce

When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, reunited to tour behind The Rising, came to Madison Square Garden on August 12, they juxtaposed "41 Shots," Springsteen's powerful so...

Aug 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

Richard Perle: Whose Fault Is He? Richard Perle: Whose Fault Is He?

Consider kids who bullied Richard Perle-- Those kids who said Perle threw just like a girl, Those kids who poked poor Perle to show how soft A mamma's boy could be, those kids...

Aug 29, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

In Cold Type In Cold Type

As summer winds down, retreats and vacations come to an end (no more toasted marshmallows) and regular life begins again, with everyday chores like buying new shoes for childre...

Aug 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

Letters Letters

MORE FUN THAN A BARREL OF... Princeton, NJ In an accurate review of Jonathan Marks's loosely argued What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee, Micaela di Leonardo ...

Aug 29, 2002 / Micaela di Leonardo, Peter Sacks, Peter Singer, and Rebecca Zwick

An Open Letter About Emergency Contraception An Open Letter About Emergency Contraception

The one thing that activists on every side of the abortion debate agree on is that we should reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.

Aug 29, 2002 / Katha Pollitt and Jennifer Baumgardner

The American Creed The American Creed

US values rest historically on a spiritual foundation grounded in nature.

Aug 29, 2002 / Feature / Forrest Church

Booby Traps at Rio + 10 Booby Traps at Rio + 10

When Rio hosted the first Earth Summit in 1992, there was so much goodwill surrounding the event that it was nicknamed, without irony, the Summit to Save the World. This week in J...

Aug 29, 2002 / Naomi Klein

Join the EC E-mail Campaign Join the EC E-mail Campaign

America's rate of unwanted pregnancy is a huge public health scandal, but five years after being approved by the FDA, emergency contraception--the use of normal birth control p...

Aug 29, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Bad Meat Bad Meat

The Scandal of Our Food Safety System

Aug 29, 2002 / Eric Schlosser

As Brazil Goes… As Brazil Goes…

"In the Roman empire, only Romans voted. In modern global capitalism, only Americans vote," declared George Soros in June. "Brazilians do not vote." He spoke too soon. With only ...

Aug 29, 2002 / Mark Weisbrot

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