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
On the Bush Administration Rescinding Stricter Limits on Arsenic in Drinking Water On the Bush Administration Rescinding Stricter Limits on Arsenic in Drinking Water
Yes, arsenic's in what we drink. That's not as scary as you think. Sure, hidden in the stroganoff It's used for knocking people off. But in your water it's OK. That's what t...
Mar 30, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
He Has a Dream He Has a Dream
The grand ambition of the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Mar 30, 2001 / Feature / Scott Sherman
Visiting the Folks Visiting the Folks
I was born by a Kerouac stream under Eisenhower skies --John Gorka The New Folk Movement is now about twenty years old, an...
Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro