Clean Elections at Stake Clean Elections at Stake
For government to represent the interests of average people, public officials have to be liberated from their dependence on private interests to finance their campaigns.
May 29, 2001 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry
The Gift Outright The Gift Outright
Readers of this magazine do not need reminders of the costs of the cold war. The mountains of corpses, the damaged lives, divided families and displaced refugees, the secret poli...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Casey Nelson Blake
Writers Wilt, SAG Sags Writers Wilt, SAG Sags
For the first few months of this year, it looked like Hollywood's unionized writers and actors were about to premiere a new labor strategy. As their conglomerate employers raked i...
May 25, 2001 / Marc Cooper
The Jeffords Jump The Jeffords Jump
"What do we do now?" That famous last line of the 1972 film The Candidate, in which Robert Redford finds himself--to his surprise--elected to the Senate, should be on the minds of...
May 25, 2001 / David Corn
Nigeria, Two Years On Nigeria, Two Years On
"Democracy without dividends." That's the phrase you're likely to hear from many Nigerians asked to assess the country's democratic experience under President Olusegun Obasanjo. T...
May 25, 2001 / Sunday Dare
Prole Like Me Prole Like Me
About every thirty years for the last one hundred, a crusading journalist somewhere has gotten the same idea: Abandon the middle-class literary life (for a brief period), get a re...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early
Bush’s New Gas Guzzler Bush’s New Gas Guzzler
George W. Bush's energy plan fudges the facts, raises false alarms, shamelessly peddles halfhearted green measures--all to provide a cover under which to slide the oil industry's ...
May 25, 2001 / The Editors
Wollstonecraft to Lady Di Wollstonecraft to Lady Di
Here we go, starting on what promises to be a pleasantly engrossing tour of the landmarks of three centuries of Anglo-American intellectual feminism, guided by a seriously impressi...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Deirdre English
The Professor of Desire The Professor of Desire
When Philip Roth compiles lists of the writers he most admires, Tolstoy never seems to make it. There's Flaubert, Kafka, Bellow--the touchstones. Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Célin...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Keith Gessen
Body Count in Kosovo Body Count in Kosovo
Over the past two years, it has become commonplace to read that the casualties among Kosovo Albanians were not sufficiently high to warrant the NATO intervention that put an end-...
May 25, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens