A Middle Class Scorecard A Middle Class Scorecard
The non-partisan Drum Major Institute has just released its first-ever scorecard of votes on legislation that significantly impact America's middle class. In "Middle Class 2003: ...
May 22, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Can Iraq Get Any Worse? Can Iraq Get Any Worse?
Let's review. * The head of the picked-in-Washington Governing Council in Iraq was assassinated just outside the highly protected command center of ...
May 21, 2004 / David Corn
Fight for Your Right to Protest Fight for Your Right to Protest
Last week the antiwar coalition United for Peace and Justice's application for a permit to rally on the Great Lawn in Central Park in Manhattan on August 29th was denied. The ra...
May 21, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Single-Payer, Mad Cow and Uncompensated Care Single-Payer, Mad Cow and Uncompensated Care
Dr. Marc regularly answers readers' questions on matters relating to medicine, healthcare and politics. To send a query, click here.
May 20, 2004 / Column / Dr. Marc Siegel
Band of Insiders Band of Insiders
I know, you're too hip to see Troy.
May 20, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Metaphysical Couple The Metaphysical Couple
This book has a past, which begins at least in 1995, when Elzbieta Ettinger brought out a controversial account of the unpublished correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Martin...
May 20, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Carol Brightman
From the Prompter’s Box From the Prompter’s Box
Those first-nights when I see my charge's panic, And, in quick whispers, slip him mislaid lines, Untangled recognition scenes will light
May 20, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Alfred Corn
The North Korean Conundrum The North Korean Conundrum
In the prevailing American stereotype, North Korea is a failing Stalinist dictatorship held together only by the ruthless repression of a mad ruler who dreams of firing nuclear w...
May 20, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Selig S. Harrison
The Rebirth of the NYRB The Rebirth of the NYRB
The highbrow literary magazine has re-emerged as a combative political actor.
May 20, 2004 / Feature / Scott Sherman
Who Let the Punks Out? Who Let the Punks Out?
The young and the angry mosh the vote for the November election.
May 20, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Kristin V. Jones