Articles

Breaking the ‘Consensus’ Breaking the ‘Consensus’

On the morning of April 20, in the nation's capital, activists held two anti-war rallies, each of which drew thousands, almost within sight of one another.

Apr 22, 2002 / Feature / Liza Featherstone

Seventy-Five Thousand Protest in Washington Seventy-Five Thousand Protest in Washington

"I think the movement is beginning to wake up," Valerie Mullen, an 80-year-old anti-war activist from Vermont, exclaimed as she surveyed the swelling crowd of people protesting ag...

Apr 21, 2002 / John Nichols

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

Pick: THE AMERICAN SOUL: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders.

Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky

Letters Letters

Judith Butler's April 1 "Guantánamo Limbo" intelligently discusses the failure of the Geneva Conventions to take account of "prisoners of the new war" an...

Apr 18, 2002 / Judith Butler and Our Readers

Sensation Sensation

A friend and I were sitting around commiserating about the things that get to us: unloading small indignities, comparing thorns. "So there I was," she said, "sitting on the bus a...

Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams

A Survey Offering Democrats Two Responses to the Return of Al Gore A Survey Offering Democrats Two Responses to the Return of Al Gore

Al Gore is back:       (1) Alas       (2) Alack

Apr 18, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Big Tobacco Big Tobacco

Uncovering the industry's multibillion-dollar global smuggling network.

Apr 18, 2002 / Feature / Mark Schapiro

What Israel Has Done What Israel Has Done

Seeking to eliminate the Palestinians as a people, it is destroying their civil life.

Apr 18, 2002 / Feature / Edward W. Said

The Pull of ‘New Gravity’ The Pull of ‘New Gravity’

In an end-of-the-year column devoted to "Politics and Prose," Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic, asserted that there had been a "new gravity" and "sobriety" to American jo...

Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mordue

End Business as Usual End Business as Usual

The Enron "outrage," AFL-CIO president John Sweeney told a rapt crowd of several hundred workers at Milwaukee's Serb Memorial Hall, is "not the story of one corporation's abuses, ...

Apr 18, 2002 / David Moberg

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