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Aboard Reich’s Reform Express Aboard Reich’s Reform Express

The former Labor Secretary is a top gubernatorial contender in Massachusetts.

Aug 1, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols

Handicapping the Crippled Handicapping the Crippled

More than thirty years ago, in an essay called "Uncle Tom and Tiny Tim: Some Reflections on the Cripple as Negro," I suggested that cripples emulate the civil rights movement by f...

Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Leonard Kriegel

Robinson Crusoe, Move Over Robinson Crusoe, Move Over

If Canadian writer Yann Martel were a preacher, he'd be charismatic, funny and convert all the nonbelievers. He baits his readers with serious themes and trawls them through a sea...

Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Charlotte Innes

In Fact… In Fact…

ELITE ONLY NEED APPLY The story made the front page of the New York Times and other papers. The director of admissions at Princeton was caught sneaking into a special website set...

Aug 1, 2002 / The Editors

Macbeth in Mesopotamia Macbeth in Mesopotamia

Concerning the impending or perhaps imminent intervention in Iraq, we now inhabit a peculiar limbo, where the military options are known while the political and moral options are n...

Aug 1, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Iraq Woos Its Neighbors Iraq Woos Its Neighbors

With the drumbeat for war on Iraq growing louder in Washington by the day, the latest United States-backed Iraqi opposition group--the Iraqi Military Alliance--was established ...

Aug 1, 2002 / Dilip Hiro

California Green Light California Green Light

Who says the good guys never win? California's new global warming law is a bona fide big deal. Signed into law by Governor Gray Davis on July 22, the global warming bill requires ...

Aug 1, 2002 / Mark Hertsgaard

9/11: The Satire 9/11: The Satire

I don't know if it's some childhood image left over from Victory at Sea or from a book of pictures my uncle brought back from the service, but when I think about the war in the Pa...

Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hal Gelb

The Rush to War The Rush to War

The American Constitution at the very beginning of the Republic sought above all to guard the country against reckless, ill-considered recourse to war. It required a declaratio...

Aug 1, 2002 / Richard Falk

Bubble Capitalism Bubble Capitalism

One bubble burst, then another and another. Enron, Global Crossing, WorldCom. The rectitude of auditors--pop. Faith in corporate CEOs and stock market analysts--pop, pop. The self...

Aug 1, 2002 / The Editors

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