In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
TROOPS IN THE STREETS Nation contributing editor and radio host Marc Cooper was tossed out of the California State University system for antiwar activities in 1971 by executive ...
Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Happy New Year Happy New Year
A cold snowy start to the new year, the first day of the new millennium. Not the fun one with champagne at the Pyramids and the all-night, round-the-globe pseudoprofundities and ...
Jan 5, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Behind Mount Rushdie Behind Mount Rushdie
About a year ago, Amit Chaudhuri published in the Times Literary Supplement a panoramic survey of the past century or so of Indian writing and its reception in the West. He obser...
Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Sumana Raychaudhuri
The Führer Furor The Führer Furor
Chaplinesque Rapscallion New Leader of Germany's National Socialist Party --The Onion "I have nothing to say about Hitler." With this...
Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
Alan Cranston Alan Cranston
After retiring from the Senate in 1993, Alan Cranston, who died on New Year's Eve of the new millennium in the home of his son Kim, began a new career that was as important as th...
Jan 5, 2001 / Jonathan Schell
Block Ashcroft–II Block Ashcroft–II
Just how bad an Attorney General would John Ashcroft be? And is his nomination worth fighting? To answer the first question, talk to those who have experienced Ashcroft up close ...
Jan 5, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
Letters Letters
FEMINIST GENERATION GAP? New York City It certainly is flattering to have a five-page comprehensive review of our book, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism an...
Jan 5, 2001 / Our Readers
These Messes Are What Deregulation Gets Us These Messes Are What Deregulation Gets Us
We do need government regulation—not to build socialism but to save capitalism.
Dec 26, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Let the Whitewash Begin Let the Whitewash Begin
If the absence of soldiers seizing cable networks is the ultimate standard of meaningful democratic empowerment, we're not doing half bad.
Dec 22, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman