Hitting Terrorism’s Roots Hitting Terrorism’s Roots
While the Bush Administration continues to build an international coalition it hopes will allow it to strike back effectively at those responsible for the September 11 attacks, ...
Oct 4, 2001 / The Editors
Signs of the Times Signs of the Times
Protests against symbols of capitalism find themselves in a transformed landscape.
Oct 4, 2001 / Feature / Naomi Klein
Policy Profiteers Policy Profiteers
Battling the war profiteers of World War I, Robert La Follette reminded America that "wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism." The progressive senato...
Oct 4, 2001 / John Nichols
Letters Letters
WE SHINE FOR ALL Chicago Your magazine remains a beacon of hope for all of us, even those who revile you for your progressive values--because we all lose...
Oct 4, 2001 / Our Readers
Season’s Greetings Season’s Greetings
Telluride, Toronto and After For folks involved in film, seasonal clocks can be set by the annual confluence of international film festivals (Telluride, Toronto, New York, Edinb...
Oct 4, 2001 / Books & the Arts / B. Ruby Rich
NYC’s Mayoral Muddle NYC’s Mayoral Muddle
In our August 20 issue we endorsed Mark Green, a lifelong liberal who has been running as a liberal centrist, for mayor of New York City. Two weeks before a runoff election aga...
Oct 4, 2001 / Michael Tomasky
Indispensable Indispensable
(An old Nat "King" Cole song, as sung by Rudy "King" Giuliani) Indispensable, that's what I am. I'm an icon now, like Uncle Sam. I'm the rock this town is built up...
Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Intelligence Test Intelligence Test
Another Pearl Harbor! That was the reaction of many after hijackers managed to turn airliners into low-tech cruise missiles and kill 6,000 people.
Oct 3, 2001 / Feature / David Corn
Coming Together in Union Square Coming Together in Union Square
With downtown Manhattan below 14th Street initially closed off to the public after the terrorist attacks of September 11, people began to gather spontaneously in Union Square Park...
Sep 30, 2001 / Feature / Adina Schecter and Sarah Yahm
What Spain Interrupted What Spain Interrupted
Antonio de Herrera, the royal chronicler of Philip II, writing about the conquest of the New World in Historia General, included these lines: The nations of New Spain preserved...
Sep 27, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans