Are We Safer? Are We Safer?
This article is an expanded version of Stephen F. Cohen's commentary in the May 5 issue.
May 19, 2003 / Stephen F. Cohen
‘America Off Our Soil!’ ‘America Off Our Soil!’
Asian and the Arab protesters continue to call for a boycott of American goods.
May 19, 2003 / Feature / Miranda Kennedy
Looking Like America Looking Like America
While the Administration denies media reports that it has given US forces in Iraq the go-ahead to shoot looters on sight, Donald Rumsfeld, testifying last week before the Senate ...
May 19, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Pre-empting Protest Pre-empting Protest
The Peace Corps is feeling the fallout from Bush Administration policies.
May 16, 2003 / Feature / Sasha Polakow-Suransky
Jokes in the News Jokes in the News
Sociologist Herbert Gans has a good idea. "What if the news media reported the best of the monologue material as well as the currently circulating political jokes and connected t...
May 15, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Campaign Contortions 2004 Campaign Contortions 2004
Introducing a new feature of this web column: Campaign Contortions '04. Politicians often find themselves in tight spots. They have to take stands ...
May 15, 2003 / David Corn
Magnificent Obsessions Magnificent Obsessions
This week, all true movie lovers will rush to see a violent and fantastic special-effects thriller, in which a character endowed with uncanny powers rips through the veil of il...
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Misuses of Allegory The Misuses of Allegory
Is José Saramago an anti-Semite?
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans
The New Yorker Goes to War The New Yorker Goes to War
In its first issue after the fall of the World Trade Center, The New Yorker published a handful of short reaction pieces by John Updike, Jonathan Franzen and others about the h...
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
The New Campus Raids The New Campus Raids
On February 26 the small town of Moscow, Idaho, saw more commotion than it had since a truck camper exploded in a vacant lot last September. While the town was still sleeping, ...
May 15, 2003 / Feature / Jungwon Kim