Politics

After Genoa After Genoa

The world will never be the same after Genoa. We are referring both to the bloody confrontations at the G-8 summit and, more deeply, to the long history of conquest that began whe...

Jul 27, 2001 / The Editors

Is This the New Face of the Democratic Party? Is This the New Face of the Democratic Party?

Representative Nancy Pelosi is poised to become Congress's most powerful woman.

Jul 27, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols

The Beat The Beat

CIVIL RIGHTS REFORM As House Republican leaders thwarted debate on the tepid Shays-Meehan campaign finance reform bill, the NAACP convention chose a radically different course by ...

Jul 27, 2001 / Column / John Nichols

All in the Family All in the Family

As bloated Hollywood blockbusters such as Pearl Harbor and A.I. disappoint to a staggering degree this summer, foreign films without huge promotional budgets are delivering offbea...

Jul 27, 2001 / Books & the Arts / B. Ruby Rich

The Oranging of America The Oranging of America

In 1980, when Ronald Reagan flattened his opponents and the religious right burst onto the national political arena, many progressives could barely believe their eyes. Only a deca...

Jul 27, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Arlene Stein

The Leader of the Last Remaining Superpower Asserts Minimal Qualifications The Leader of the Last Remaining Superpower Asserts Minimal Qualifications

To those who say he cannot do it, Who claim his head is filled with suet, He says that he is plenty able To deal with issues on the table. Though he may have no depths to plu...

Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Aren’t We Happy Yet? Aren’t We Happy Yet?

There was a short note in the New York Times a few months ago reporting that Governor Jeb Bush wept while speaking to the Southern Regional Conference of the National Baptist Con...

Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine

"Bustin' Out," episode six of R.J. Cutler's breakthrough reality TV series American High, opens on 17-year-old Morgan Moss pointing a pistol at his mother's head and barking deman...

Jul 27, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Bravmann

Violence in Genoa Violence in Genoa

Violence in Genoa

Demonstrations at the recent G-8 summit in Genoa resulted in

Jul 26, 2001 / Nicholas Jackson, Andrea Pertosa, Alex Crowley, Faith Hareldson, Troy Davis, Rob Miller, and Louise C. Hensleigh

The Battle of Genoa The Battle of Genoa

Organizers of the anti-G8 protest in Genoa say that 200,000 people came from all over Italy and Europe to join the mammoth demonstration yesterday.

Jul 21, 2001 / Feature / Walden Bello

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