Preserving the Urban Dynamic Preserving the Urban Dynamic
Cities that say no to new malls and superstores are enjoying regeneration.
Apr 5, 2001 / Feature / Roberta Brandes Gratz
Beyond McCain-Feingold Beyond McCain-Feingold
The Senate's passage of McCain-Feingold was welcome if only as a comeuppance to the Trent Lotts and Mitch McConnells who had arrogantly defied popular sentiment by keeping the ...
Apr 5, 2001 / The Editors
A Fairness Agenda for the Bush Era A Fairness Agenda for the Bush Era
In the clash over tax cuts and social programs, much of what progressives need to do is defensive. But it would be a mistake not to float new ideas, too.
Apr 5, 2001 / Feature /
Back to the Bay of Pigs Back to the Bay of Pigs
Two senior citizens of the cold war are chatting amiably over small cups of thick, sweet Cuban coffee in a Havana hotel. Bob Reynolds, tall and erect in his mid-70s, made cland...
Apr 5, 2001 / John Dinges
Beauty and the Beastly Beauty and the Beastly
Jean Clair, director of the Musée Picasso in Paris and widely respected both as scholar and art critic, has for some years been out of sympathy with contemporary art. Wh...
Apr 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Stones, Glass Houses, Sontag and Said Stones, Glass Houses, Sontag and Said
To put it all in a nutshell, come the month of May Edward Said won't be traveling to Vienna; Susan Sontag will be traveling to Jerusalem. It's a backhanded tribute ...
Apr 5, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Commies and the Conservatives Who Love Them Commies and the Conservatives Who Love Them
Remember the term "useful idiots"? Those were the well-meaning leftists who during the cold war couldn't distinguish between the beautiful dream of communism and the mu...
Apr 5, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
On Butterfly Wings On Butterfly Wings
This is going to be yet one more article on the never-ending recount-a-rama in Florida. But first a flashback to a pre-Election Day campaign moment: It's October. George W.
Apr 5, 2001 / Feature / David Corn
Making the Case in Albany Making the Case in Albany
While most of the 1,500 people who traveled to Albany from all over New York State last Tuesday endured freezing winds outside the legislature to tell stories of families torn ...
Letters Letters
KEEP THE SUN IN THE SUNSHINE STATE LaFayette, N.Y. In "The Florida Fog" [March 19], David Corn asks, "Will the fog ever lift?" and concludes that a conc...
Mar 30, 2001 / Our Readers