Walt Whitman Walt Whitman
In 1848, 29-year-old Walt Whitman was for three months a reporter for the Daily Crescent in New Orleans, writing fluff pieces about local color and charm as seen through Yankee...
Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Richard Gambino
Canada: Hippie Nation? Canada: Hippie Nation?
Canadians can't quite believe it. Suddenly, we're interesting.
Jul 2, 2003 / Column / Naomi Klein
The Enemy Within The Enemy Within
Snoozing guards at Los Alamos, missing vials of plutonium oxide... Yes, the headlines in late June were announcing "security lapses" again at national labs and nuclear weapons ...
Jul 2, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Dems–Why Not Woo the Young? Dems–Why Not Woo the Young?
Since 1968 the Democrats have been shut out, more or less, as majority party. But with a small bump in left-of-center turnout, they'd be running the country.
Jul 2, 2003 / Thomas Geoghegan
Saddam Mystery Solved Saddam Mystery Solved
Top intelligence experts now believe beret-fancying Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein died of complications from swallowing his mustache during a US missile attack on his Baghdad b...
Jul 2, 2003 / Bruce McCall
“…the evidence indicates a pattern of abuse…” “…the evidence indicates a pattern of abuse…”
Post-9/11 detainees at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn were held in lockdown twenty-three hours a day (an
Jul 2, 2003 / Keith Aoki and Garrett Epps
A Summary of Justice Antonin Scalia’s Dissent In Lawrence v. Texas A Summary of Justice Antonin Scalia’s Dissent In Lawrence v. Texas
So what if it's private, in their hacienda? It's sodomy still, and enough to offend a Respectable man, and we must never lend a Leg up to that vile homosexual agenda!
Jul 2, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Nation Notes Nation Notes
"Diary of a Mad Law Professor" columnist Patricia J. Williams is on leave to work on a book. Her column will resume in September.
Jul 2, 2003 / The Editors
Early Returns Early Returns
More people voted in the wwww.MoveOn.org PAC online presidential primary than are expected to participate in next January's Democratic caucuses in Iowa and t
Jul 2, 2003 / John Nichols