A Survey Offering Democrats Two Responses to the Return of Al Gore A Survey Offering Democrats Two Responses to the Return of Al Gore
Al Gore is back: (1) Alas (2) Alack
Apr 18, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Sensation Sensation
A friend and I were sitting around commiserating about the things that get to us: unloading small indignities, comparing thorns. "So there I was," she said, "sitting on the bus a...
Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams
Letters Letters
Judith Butler's April 1 "Guantánamo Limbo" intelligently discusses the failure of the Geneva Conventions to take account of "prisoners of the new war" an...
Apr 18, 2002 / Judith Butler and Our Readers
Is Smuggling a Patriotic Act? Is Smuggling a Patriotic Act?
On the one-month anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tobacco industry took aim at Congress's first effort to respond to the crisis with a major piece of new leg...
Apr 18, 2002 / Mark Schapiro
It’s Only a Beginning It’s Only a Beginning
Nearly four years have elapsed since that merry month of May when France and the whole world were taken aback by a sudden and momentous upheaval.
Apr 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Sharon Wears Oppressor’s Cloak Sharon Wears Oppressor’s Cloak
What is the fundamental difference between Slobodan Milosevic and Ariel Sharon? The former is on trial for war crimes, while the latter still leads an occupying army.
Apr 16, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
It’s Time to Turn the Farm Bill Debate Into a Food Fight It’s Time to Turn the Farm Bill Debate Into a Food Fight
Would someone in Congress please, please, please propose changing the name of the "farm bill" to the "food bill"? Maybe if the issue at hand had a more dramatic name the media a...
Apr 15, 2002 / John Nichols
Talking With Jeff Tweedy Talking With Jeff Tweedy
Jeff Tweedy may be best known to Nation readers as Billy Bragg's collaborator (along with his band Wilco) on the Mermaid Avenue recordings of recent years--two great albums that s...
Apr 11, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey
Unsigning the ICC Unsigning the ICC
History will record April 11, 2002, as a day of enormous significance in the effort to achieve the rule of law in the conduct of international affairs. It marks the day the Treaty...
Apr 11, 2002 / John B. Anderson
Witness in the Territories Witness in the Territories
In the last days of March, at the end of a five-day voyage with seven fellow members of the International Parliament of Writers (IPW) through the battered archipelago of reservat...
Apr 11, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Russell Banks