Dude, Where’s My Klawans? Dude, Where’s My Klawans?
Commenting on the German film Run Lola Run two years ago, The Nation's redoubtable film critic, Stuart Klawans, quoted a character speaking nominally of soccer: "The ball is round...
Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
George Bush’s Democrats George Bush’s Democrats
Who are George Bush's bipartisan Democrats?
Jan 5, 2001 / Feature / Jesse Jackson Jr.
In Fact… In Fact…
CLINTON AND THE ICC Clinton's eleventh-hour signature on the International Criminal Court treaty was overdue, but at least it got the United States inside the door before the bel...
Jan 5, 2001 / The Editors
Powell’s Secret Coup Powell’s Secret Coup
The coronation of Colin Powell will probably not be interrupted by any of the specific questions about his mediocre and sometimes sinister past that were so well phrased by David C...
Jan 5, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Dream Notebook Dream Notebook
What will become of these my many lives, abandoned each morning abruptly to their own fates? Of the fox who stopped to look up at me, bright death stippling her muzzle, and...
Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Jane Hirshfield
Cool It, World Cool It, World
After three years of diplomatic fatigue, the United States put delegates from 170 countries out of their misery at the latest round of climate talks at The Hague in November by s...
Jan 5, 2001 / Ross Gelbspan
Yuletide All the Time Yuletide All the Time
We're sorry, but we do not have permission to present this article on our website. It is an excerpt from Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World (Metropolitan). © ...
Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Eduardo Galeano
Spoil Bush’s Party Spoil Bush’s Party
Mandate or no, George W. Bush is forging ahead with Cabinet appointments, policy forums and talk of a "first 100 days." Bush and his team have assembled a Cabinet faster than any...
Jan 5, 2001 / The Editors
How Stands the Union? How Stands the Union?
In their campaigns for the White House, the major-party candidates--even the one backed by labor--spent little time debating labor-law reform. Nevertheless, the AFL-CIO ha...
Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early
Bush’s Hammer Bush’s Hammer
House GOP whip Tom DeLay will do his best to pull the President to the right.
Jan 5, 2001 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss