Join Operation Strangelove on May 14 Join Operation Strangelove on May 14
Stanley Kubrick's brilliant 1962 black comedy about politics, power and technology is one of the greatest antiwar films ever made. And, now, forty years after it was released, Dr...
May 3, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Pity David Frum Pity David Frum
Conservative talking head and former Bush speechwriter David Frum was quoted yesterday by Howard Kurtz in his online Washington Post media column criticizing my "amazing breath c...
May 2, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Freedom of Choice Talking Points Freedom of Choice Talking Points
Though polls consistently show a majority of Americans supporting freedom of choice, abortion rights are facing their greatest attack since the Supreme Court decision Roe V.
May 1, 2003 / Jonah Engle
Bush’s Top Gun Photo-Op Bush’s Top Gun Photo-Op
Winning a war or two goes a long way toward redefining a man. As the cable news networks enthusiastically covered George W. Bush's trip to the USS
May 1, 2003 / David Corn
Discovery/The Nation ’03 Prizewinners Discovery/The Nation ’03 Prizewinners
The Nation announces the winners of Discovery/The Nation, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize of the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y.
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors
Kurdish Delight Kurdish Delight
International cinema has an irresistible new pair of reprobates: middle-aged brothers who can do no right in their lives and no wrong before the camera.
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Nina Simone: Lit by a Sacred Flame Nina Simone: Lit by a Sacred Flame
To listen to her voice was to be hijacked by its power.
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz
Bird on a Wire Bird on a Wire
I didn't have to wait long for Ziad, the plumber, to come to my house. It had been a year since the current Palestinian intifada broke out in September 2000, and unemployment w...
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Raja Shehadeh
The Intuitionist The Intuitionist
Writers write by trying to find out what it is they're writing.
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / E.L. Doctorow
Labor’s Cold War Labor’s Cold War
Freshly unearthed documents may force the AFL-CIO to face up to past betrayals.
May 1, 2003 / Feature / Tim Shorrock