Race: the Continental Divide Race: the Continental Divide
The first moments of a recent documentary about Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Rebels With a Cause, recall one of the signal images of the 1960s civil rights struggle: p...
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz
Nader and the Politics of Fear Nader and the Politics of Fear
He and the Greens are both a problem and a possible asset for the Democrats.
Feb 23, 2001 / Feature / William Greider
Bully in the Pulpit? Bully in the Pulpit?
Bully in the Pulpit? The following is a forum on Ellen Willis's "Freedom From Religion," which appeared in the February 19 issue. --The ...
Feb 23, 2001 / Tom Hayden, Michael Eric Dyson, Ellen Willis, Michael Kazin, Frances Kissling, Arthur Hertzberg, Richard Parker, Jim Wallis, and Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
Little Elegy in G Minor Little Elegy in G Minor
A box of Chopin nocturnes handed down from the other side of my mother's death-- evening gowns in trash bags making a little Golgotha of their own right in the corner of that stud...
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Liu
A Democratic Lullaby to Bill Clinton A Democratic Lullaby to Bill Clinton
As Bush finds backs to pat and hands to shake, The Democrats can't seem to buy a break. The opposition doesn't coalesce, Because the spotlight's on the Clinton mess, A ...
Feb 23, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Right With Bush Right With Bush
Every conservative is now a compassionate conservative. Well, most were at the recent annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which drew more than 3,000 right-wing acti...
Feb 23, 2001 / David Corn
Bush’s Nuclear Revival Bush’s Nuclear Revival
George W. Bush's mid-February directive ordering the Pentagon to review and restructure the US nuclear arsenal is a wake-up call for supporters of arms control and disarmament....
Feb 23, 2001 / William D. Hartung
Thomas Speaks! Thomas Speaks!
Back during the presidential campaign, George W. Bush called Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia his favorite Supreme Court Justices--a remark widely interpreted at the time as ...
Feb 23, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
REFORM CANDIDATE "Of reconsiderations of Western socialism, there is no end," Norman Birnbaum writes cheekily at the opening of his new book--and immediately sets out to show us (...
Feb 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
SDS’s Other Wars SDS’s Other Wars
With over 100,000 members in college and university chapters, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was the largest and most significant of the 1960s New Left organizations in ...
Feb 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Jim Russell