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Letter From Ground Zero

In this space last week, I commented that the choice for the United States in North Korea was probably between a catastrophic war and permitting North Korea to keep its nucl...

Jonathan Schell

Katha Pollitt Honored

Congratulations to Katha Pollitt, winner of the National Magazine Award in the Columns and Commentary category. Katha also won the 1992 award in Essays & Criticism.

The Editors

SARS and Inequality

Over the past few months, yet another epidemic has come to trouble our unhappy world. Shortly after SARS was identified, the entire globe was put on notice.

Paul Farmer

McCarthy’s Secret Show

Victor Navasky's Naming Names (Hill & Wang) was recently reissued in paperback with a new afterword.

Victor Navasky

Dean’s No Wellstone

Lately, presidential contender Howard Dean has been likening himself to the late Senator Paul Wellstone.

Jim Farrell

Scandal on Scandal

The best names in Wall Street, who besmirched themselves with double-dealing stock-market scandals, were finally "punished" recently, and the miscreants could not contain th...

The Editors

The WMD Follies

It turns out the threat is not from Iraq but from us.

Robert Scheer

Elections vs. Democracy in Argentina

In most of the world, it's the sign for peace, but here in Argentina it means war.

Naomi Klein

The Disquieted American

Recently Congress released transcripts of secret testimony of witnesses summoned before Senator Joseph McCarthy's infamous subcommittee in hearings that impugned the patriot...

Patricia J. Williams

The Trials of Ed Rosenthal

Come June 4, Ed Rosenthal will be back in US District Court in San Francisco, to hear what sentence Judge Charles Breyer has decided to impose.

Alexander Cockburn

On the Revelation of William Bennett’s Gambling Habit

Calvin Trillin

Debating Cuba

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