Can Patriotism Be Compassionate? Can Patriotism Be Compassionate?
Moral concern begins with the local, but shouldn't stop there.
Nov 29, 2001 / Feature / Martha C. Nussbaum
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
Reviews of Grace Schulman's The Paintings of Our Lives and Stephen F. Cohen's Failed Crusade.
Nov 29, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
After the Taliban After the Taliban
Laura Bush might put on a good face for women's rights in Afghanistan, but her husband's handwork works against women in other places.
Nov 29, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Jazzing Politics Jazzing Politics
Don Byron and Dave Douglas put the political back into jazz.
Nov 29, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Alien’s Law Alien’s Law
Noncitizens in the United States face an increasingly harsh Ashcroft-run Justice Department.
Nov 29, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
One Problem One Problem
Yes, jury trials in public are a right, Says Cheney. Then he says that in this fight No terrorist deserves that sort of trial, Though otherwise it's certainly our style. Without a trial, though, how do we decide To whom this definition is applied? We grab a guy, but is the guy we've got An undeserving terrorist or not?
Nov 29, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Times Cries Eke! Buries Al Gore Times Cries Eke! Buries Al Gore
Florida revisited: Schadenfreude amid the carnage of the democratic process.
Nov 29, 2001 / Feature / Gore Vidal
Bringing the Holy War Home Bringing the Holy War Home
There is a link between our own cultural conflicts and the logic of jihad.
Nov 29, 2001 / Feature / Ellen Willis
US Can’t Just Hit and Run US Can’t Just Hit and Run
Ronald Reagan celebrated them as "freedom fighters" for upholding "the ideals of freedom and independence" and declared a day in their honor.
Nov 27, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer
Is the US Training Terrorists? Is the US Training Terrorists?
Father Roy Bourgeois, the charismatic Maryknoll priest who has, since 1990, led the annual protest against against the United States' most infamous military training facility, was...
Nov 27, 2001 / Feature / Chris Kromm and Jordan Green