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May 13, 2002 Issue

Michael Massing investigates the extent of US involvement in Afghanistan, William Greider examines the role of banks in Enron schemes and Ja…

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Editorial

Bill Simon’s Enron Ties

California GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon Jr. has portrayed himself as a savvy businessman who can deal successfully with the state's financial woes. But Simon's ties t...

Le Pen: The Center Folds

Earthquake. Cataclysm. Electroshock. The 9/11 of French politics. These were the recurring terms that established political leaders of both left and right used to cha...

Strange Marchfellows

The numbers and diversity of the April 20 protests in Washington represented a giant step forward for the antiwar movement. The weekend's events dealt a lethal blow to the noti...

Unmaking of the President

The ineffable good luck of George W. Bush seems to be faltering at last. The man became President by an electoral accident that resembled theft. His stock was sinking, his agen...

No-Risk Electioneering

A news photograph of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf in a green pagaree, an ornamental turban, was proof enough that the somewhat dapper and, perhaps, truly disinterested...

Column

Backlash Babies

A long time ago I dated a 28-year-old man who told me the first time we went out that he wanted to have seven children. Subsequently, I was involved for many years with an a...

Single Standards

Nothing is more to be despised, in a time of crisis, than the affectation of "evenhandedness." But there are two very nasty delusions and euphemisms gaining ground at ...

Letters

Feature

Aiming for a Conviction

Anyone looking for evidence that the death penalty should be abolished need only look at the case of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called twentieth hijacker, now on trial for his ...

Books & the Arts

In Cold Type

When I was a teenager on my first trip to Paris, I remember looking out at the Parisians from the window of a taxi as we proceeded along some splendid boulevard and thinking...

The Days of May

What date shall I assign to Chris Marker's magnum opus, A Grin Without a Cat? This rugged oak of an essay-film, whose gnarls trace the growth and withering of decades...

History in a Blur

It seems scarcely to have required a great philosophical mind to come up with the observation that each of us is the child of our times, but that thought must have been rece...

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