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The Leader of the Last Remaining Superpower Asserts Minimal Qualifications The Leader of the Last Remaining Superpower Asserts Minimal Qualifications

To those who say he cannot do it, Who claim his head is filled with suet, He says that he is plenty able To deal with issues on the table. Though he may have no depths to plu...

Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Aren’t We Happy Yet? Aren’t We Happy Yet?

There was a short note in the New York Times a few months ago reporting that Governor Jeb Bush wept while speaking to the Southern Regional Conference of the National Baptist Con...

Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Audacity on Trial Audacity on Trial

Talking union still amounts to a punishable offense in parts of the Old South.

Jul 27, 2001 / Feature / JoAnn Wypijewski

Letters Letters

 

Jul 27, 2001 / Eric Alterman, Doug Ireland, and Our Readers

Violence in Genoa Violence in Genoa

Violence in Genoa Demonstrations at the recent G-8 summit in Genoa resulted in

Jul 26, 2001 / Nicholas Jackson, Andrea Pertosa, Alex Crowley, Faith Hareldson, Troy Davis, Rob Miller, and Louise C. Hensleigh

The Battle of Genoa The Battle of Genoa

Organizers of the anti-G8 protest in Genoa say that 200,000 people came from all over Italy and Europe to join the mammoth demonstration yesterday.

Jul 21, 2001 / Feature / Walden Bello

Plan Colombia Broadens Plan Colombia Broadens

These days, the buzz on Capitol Hill seems loudest about Gary Condit.

Jul 17, 2001 / Feature / Jason Vest

Virtual Pinocchio Virtual Pinocchio

Why did Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick want Spielberg to direct Kubrick's A.I., the fable of a robot who wants a human mother's love? Imagine the personals ad Kubrick might ...

Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo

Letter From Palestine Letter From Palestine

The mood in the occupied territories is one of growing rage and despair.

Jul 12, 2001 / Feature / Roane Carey

Scalia’s Kind of Privacy Scalia’s Kind of Privacy

One of the most surprising decisions of the Supreme Court term just concluded was Justice Antonin Scalia's ruling in favor of a criminal defendant who claimed that a thermal imagi...

Jul 12, 2001 / David Cole

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