Sensation Sensation
A friend and I were sitting around commiserating about the things that get to us: unloading small indignities, comparing thorns. "So there I was," she said, "sitting on the bus a...
Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams
Big Food’s Real Appetites Big Food’s Real Appetites
More than the much-reviled products of Big Tobacco, big helpings and Big Food constitute the number-one threat to America's children, especially when the fare is helpings of fats,...
Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
Understanding Ashcroft Understanding Ashcroft
I am beginning to suspect that Nation readers may not fully appreciate the challenges Attorney General John Ashcroft faces. What would you do in his place? Your intelligence agenc...
Apr 18, 2002 / David Cole
Smoking Out Smuggling Smoking Out Smuggling
It's hard to imagine a tale of corporate mischief that would shock veteran observers of the US tobacco industry. But even the most jaded reader may raise an eyebrow at the allegat...
Apr 18, 2002 / The Editors
Going Down the Road Going Down the Road
o, my momma called, "Why are they letting them gouge us like this?" she wanted to know. "They" are our so-called political leaders in Washington, and "them" are the drugmakers now...
Apr 11, 2002 / Jim Hightower
An Uneasy Peace An Uneasy Peace
Afghan women are free of the Taliban, but liberation is still a distant dream.
Apr 11, 2002 / Feature / Jan Goodwin
Where Are the Peaceniks? Where Are the Peaceniks?
Do Not Employ Arabs, Enemies Should Not Be Offered a Livelihood and We Will Assist Those Who Do Not Provide Work For Arabs are just a few of the slogans covering billboards throug...
Apr 11, 2002 / Neve Gordon
US Jews Cannot Acquiesce to Sharon’s Monstrous Behavior US Jews Cannot Acquiesce to Sharon’s Monstrous Behavior
What does it mean to be Jewish?
Apr 9, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Microbes at the Gates Microbes at the Gates
Odds are good that on a plane or boat or bus somewhere in the world sits a refugee headed for the United States carrying the seeds of a weapon of mass destruction. The agent he un...
Apr 4, 2002 / Wendy Johnson
The Keyboard Campus The Keyboard Campus
"Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics," business "guru" Peter Drucker proclaimed in Forbes five years ago. "It took more than 200 years for the printed...
Apr 4, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Brier and Roy Rosenzweig