Fighting for Peace–UPDATED Fighting for Peace–UPDATED
****HELP GREET BUSH IN FLORIDA**** George W. Bush is going to Florida tomorrow. Help the local progresive community give him a proper greeting. He'll be at MacDill Air Force Bas...
Mar 23, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Against the Hijacking of Patriotism Against the Hijacking of Patriotism
"In all good conscience, I cannot and will not vote for a resolution that supports and endorses a failed policy that led us to war," declared US Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, as he ...
Mar 22, 2003 / John Nichols
Rachel Corrie’s Echo Rachel Corrie’s Echo
In the last note that 23-year-old American college student Rachel Corrie wrote to her father from a Palestinian community on the Gaza Strip, she thanked Craig Corrie for stepping ...
Mar 20, 2003 / John Nichols
‘For the Monkey’ ‘For the Monkey’
When James Agee wrote in these pages sixty years ago, he often complained of the paltriness of this or that movie, as judged against the events of the day.
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Reading Leonardo Reading Leonardo
In 1906, the French savant Pierre Duhem published a three-volume work on Leonardo as scientist under the innocuous title Études sur Leonard de Vinci. It was the work's s...
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Against the Genetic Grain Against the Genetic Grain
I first heard of Jon Beckwith in the mid-1970s, in a question framed by my genetics professor: Why would anyone willfully disrupt a research program designed to collect useful ...
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Marks
Germline Warfare Germline Warfare
A most remarkable event occurred in the weeks preceding the June 2000 announcement of the completion of the first draft of the human genome DNA code: One of the leaders of the ...
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ralph Brave
Seeking a New Globalism in Chiapas Seeking a New Globalism in Chiapas
Opponents of the neoliberal model are demanding a new social contract.
Mar 20, 2003 / Feature / Tom Hayden
‘The Inland Empire’ ‘The Inland Empire’
It lacks beaches, but it does have the most mixed neighborhoods in California.
Mar 20, 2003 / Feature / Mike Davis
These United States These United States
John Leonard edited and wrote the introduction to These United States: Portraits of America (Nation Books).
Mar 20, 2003 / Feature / John Leonard