The Ground Beneath My Feet The Ground Beneath My Feet
In the summer of 1986 I was traveling in Nicaragua, working on the book of reportage that was published six months later as The Jaguar Smile. It was the seventh anniversary of th...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Salman Rushdie
Forward to the Past Forward to the Past
Most of the time I think of gay rights, women's emancipation and the decline of male dominance as irreversible historical processes, blah blah, driven as they are by powerful mat...
Jun 21, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Stopping at a Red Light Stopping at a Red Light
Nancy Chan is a postfeminist icon of sorts. The ultimate lady entrepreneur, Chan--the title character of the popular serial Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, catalogued ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Leah Platt
The Beat The Beat
SENATE SHUFFLE It was a remarkably different Senate that convened following Vermonter Jim Jeffords's switch from Republican to Independent status. The Jeffords jump did more than ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Column / John Nichols
Building to Win Building to Win
In the progressive playbook for 2001, labor is called on to assume a leading role.
Jun 21, 2001 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel
ACT UP Goes Global ACT UP Goes Global
An early US AIDS group employs direct action to oppose injustice everywhere.
Jun 21, 2001 / Feature / Richard Kim
In Fact… In Fact…
FIRST AMENDMENT BEDFELLOWS Every once in a while it behooves this 135-year-old journal (136 on July 5!) to remind ourselves that, like the broken clock that is right twice a day,...
Jun 21, 2001 / The Editors
Who’ll Defend Against Missile Defense? Who’ll Defend Against Missile Defense?
Stanford, California Arriving to record a television debate at the Hoover Institution here a few months ago, I found the personnel of the preceding show still standing aro...
Jun 21, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Annan’s AIDS Crusade Annan’s AIDS Crusade
On a late June day that will surely have been picked by the political astrologers around him, Kofi Annan of Ghana will likely be coronated for a second five-year term as Secretary...
Jun 21, 2001 / Pranay Gupte
Pentagon Papers Chase Pentagon Papers Chase
"The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg." What a marvelous subject! Does any other person's life express more intensely the contradictions of American experience during the past fi...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / H. Bruce Franklin