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Going Down the Road Going Down the Road

Wal-Mart Warriors

Feb 14, 2002 / Jim Hightower

Black Mischief Black Mischief

On East Capitol Street a few years ago, I was in a taxi when a car pulled suddenly and dangerously across our bow. My driver was white, with a hunter's cap and earmuffs and an inde...

Feb 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Hitchens

NYC Campaign Reform NYC Campaign Reform

The success of Michael Bloomberg's $69 million race for Mayor of New York against Mark Green was widely seen as a setback for campaign finance reform. But the Bloomberg campaign de...

Feb 14, 2002 / Richard Kirsch

A Crowbar to the Face A Crowbar to the Face

Frederick Wiseman has spent a lifetime piecing together sounds and images captured from the daily flow.

Feb 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Bush’s China Opening Bush’s China Opening

In the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, China has undergone a dramatic makeover: from the most outspoken adversary of the United States to a highly appreciated ally...

Feb 14, 2002 / Peter Kwong and Dusanka Miscevic

Enron’s Global Crusade Enron’s Global Crusade

The Texas company has been a scandal in other countries for a long time.

Feb 14, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols

Egg on the Brain Egg on the Brain

It may look as if domestic politics no longer exists in the new America--the one in which there is no money for anything besides guns and prisons but we don't care because we are...

Feb 14, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Lost in America Lost in America

"When I write, I bid farewell to myself," Jimmy Santiago Baca said in 1992. "I leave most of what I know behind and wander through the landscape of language." This is a memorable...

Feb 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans

Kenny Boy Kenny Boy

(A Houston version of the Irish folk song) Oh, Kenny Boy, your friends are disappearing. They don't know you, much less your kvetchy wife. Yes, it's sad when pols that y...

Feb 14, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Letter From China Letter From China

While the elite embrace globalization, the anger of workers and peasants grows.

Feb 14, 2002 / Feature / Jiang Xueqin

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