Tree-Huggers No Longer! Tree-Huggers No Longer!
It's official now: The United States has a policy on climate change. President Bush announced it on Valentine's Day at a government climate and oceans research center. "My approa...
Mar 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Frank Ackerman
Phonics Rises From the Ashes Phonics Rises From the Ashes
Phonics Rises From the Ashes Morris, Minn. Thanks to Stephen Metcalf for his informed article "Reading Between the Lines" [Jan. 28]. There is another winner from Bush'...
Mar 7, 2002 / Our Readers
Virtual Reality Virtual Reality
In my last column, I mentioned that most actual drug users are young white people, even though most of those "profiled" as drug users are people of color. Indeed, according to th...
Mar 7, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Bush Plan for a Shadow Government The Bush Plan for a Shadow Government
A place was found for Mr. Cheney Where, even if the missiles rain, he Can carry on his governing nonstop. They then found bunkers down so far That closed-lip Bushies even are...
Mar 7, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Law’s the Law in Boston Law’s the Law in Boston
Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law deserves the Watergate Award for Obfuscatory Declamation: He has characterized his nearly two decades of cover-up of felonies--namely, the rape and m...
Mar 7, 2002 / Margaret Spillane
Central Asia’s Heroin Problem Central Asia’s Heroin Problem
From Afghan farms into the Tajik mountains, the drug trade cuts a wide swath.
Mar 7, 2002 / Feature / Aram Roston
The Marvel of the Obvious The Marvel of the Obvious
"There are things/We live among 'and to see them/Is to know ourselves.'" These three lines are among the most stirring written by George Oppen, a poet whose modesty and honesty p...
Mar 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
Kucinich Rocks the Boat Kucinich Rocks the Boat
Dennis Kucinich never doubted that millions of Americans had deep concerns about George W. Bush's ever-expanding war on ill-defined foes abroad and on civil liberties at home. Bu...
Mar 7, 2002 / John Nichols
The Senate’s Fighting Liberal The Senate’s Fighting Liberal
Sen. Ted Kennedy has passed away at the age of 77. This 2002 Nation profile by the late Jack Newfield captures the essence of what this legend meant to the progressive movement.
Mar 7, 2002 / Feature / Jack Newfield
Beam Us Back, Scotty! Beam Us Back, Scotty!
Science fiction routinely gets away with subversive gestures that would never be allowed in any realistic program. Thus it is that people who don't watch Star Trek are probably u...
Mar 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Donna Minkowitz