CalPERS and Carlyle CalPERS and Carlyle
On February 21 the California Public Employees Retirement System stunned financial markets in Asia when it said it would withdraw its $450 million investments in publicly traded c...
Mar 14, 2002 / Feature / Tim Shorrock
Letter From Ground Zero: March 14, 2002 Letter From Ground Zero: March 14, 2002
The offspring of the Manhattan Project are circling back toward Manhattan.
Mar 14, 2002 / Jonathan Schell
God Changes Everything God Changes Everything
Let's say there was a school system or a chain of clinics on whose professional staff were a certain number of men who molested the children in their care and who, whenever this ...
Mar 14, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Trade Fights Trade Fights
There aren't many Democratic Congressional candidates who can claim that they personally thwarted the agenda of organized labor in the most critical legislative battles of the pas...
Mar 14, 2002 / John Nichols
Muslim Jerusalem: A Story Muslim Jerusalem: A Story
Kanan Makiya, the Arab world's most ardent and vocal supporter of America's projected intervention in Iraq, the hammer of liberal Arab intelligentsia, the arch anti-Orientalist, h...
Mar 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Turi Munthe
Enron, the Media and the New Economy Enron, the Media and the New Economy
The Houston company was part of the biggest "big idea" of the past decade.
Mar 14, 2002 / Feature / Jeff Madrick
Six Months On, and Counting Six Months On, and Counting
When it comes to the events of September 11, everyone is an expert and no one is.
Mar 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gara LaMarche
The Emigrant The Emigrant
On December 14, the German writer W.G. Sebald died, age 57, in a car accident in England, where he had lived for thirty-five years. He had published four remarkable books: fluid, ...
Mar 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Kunkel
Time After Time Time After Time
Let's start with the Morlocks. In the new film version of The Time Machine, the subterranean carnivores are not merely apelike, as in the H.G. Wells novel. They're Planet of the A...
Mar 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
In Fact… In Fact…
GAY RIGHTS IN ALABAMA Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who defied a 1994 federal court ruling prohibiting him from displaying the Ten Commandments in a state courtroom by placing...
Mar 14, 2002 / The Editors