Questions for Ashcroft Questions for Ashcroft
As the Senate begins its hearings on the nomination of John Ashcroft as Attorney General, it is important to focus on the different roles that his office plays in the administrati...
Jul 9, 2001 / Leon Friedman
Passing the Buck in Florida Passing the Buck in Florida
Joseph Heller would have had a field day with the hearings of the US Commission on Civil Rights in Tallahassee last week.
Jul 9, 2001 / John Lantigua
The ‘Scalia Five’: An Exchange The ‘Scalia Five’: An Exchange
The 'Scalia Five': An Exchange As expected, we were deluged with letters regardi
Jul 5, 2001 / Kevin A. Vaillancourt, Kenneth Salottolo, John Chilcott, Shirley Lindquist, Joel Collier, and Lauretta Lange
DynCorp’s Drug Problem DynCorp’s Drug Problem
Could the State Department's antidrug contractors in South America possibly be dabbling in narcotics trafficking?
Jul 3, 2001 / Feature / Jason Vest
Drawing for Projection Drawing for Projection
In a famous sequence of photographs, Henri Matisse documented, over the course of six months in 1935, twenty-two states of his evolving Large Reclining Nude. On impulse, I recentl...
Jun 28, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Defining John Kerry Defining John Kerry
"Do you consider yourself a liberal?"
Jun 28, 2001 / Feature / David Corn
GMO? Hell No! GMO? Hell No!
GMO? Hell No! We knew that Danny Kohl's "GM Foods--Another View" [April 16], on genetically modified organism (GMO) technology used in food production, would provoke...
Jun 28, 2001 / Danny Kohl and Our Readers
A Fellow Traveling A Fellow Traveling
Ron Radosh seems an easy target, so easy that a toy pistol (or automatic writing) should be weaponry enough--and no need to bother Nation readers, keen folks that we are, with a d...
Jun 28, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Martin Duberman
Friends at Court Friends at Court
The Supreme Court, in the final week of June, handed down three decisions, each of which seems to endorse a valuable social principle. In the first, involving the right...
Jun 28, 2001 / The Editors