Time After Time Time After Time
Let's start with the Morlocks. In the new film version of The Time Machine, the subterranean carnivores are not merely apelike, as in the H.G. Wells novel. They're Planet of the A...
Mar 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
Langston Hughes on the real Harlem renaissance.
Mar 11, 2002 / Feature / Langston Hughes
The Senate’s Fighting Liberal The Senate’s Fighting Liberal
Sen. Ted Kennedy has passed away at the age of 77. This 2002 Nation profile by the late Jack Newfield captures the essence of what this legend meant to the progressive movement.
Mar 7, 2002 / Feature / Jack Newfield
Tree-Huggers No Longer! Tree-Huggers No Longer!
It's official now: The United States has a policy on climate change. President Bush announced it on Valentine's Day at a government climate and oceans research center. "My approa...
Mar 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Frank Ackerman
Beam Us Back, Scotty! Beam Us Back, Scotty!
Science fiction routinely gets away with subversive gestures that would never be allowed in any realistic program. Thus it is that people who don't watch Star Trek are probably u...
Mar 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Donna Minkowitz
The Marvel of the Obvious The Marvel of the Obvious
"There are things/We live among 'and to see them/Is to know ourselves.'" These three lines are among the most stirring written by George Oppen, a poet whose modesty and honesty p...
Mar 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
The Still Bad New Old Nixon The Still Bad New Old Nixon
It's been three decades since President Richard M.
Mar 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert Scheer
Organizing for Social Change After Suffrage Organizing for Social Change After Suffrage
Now that women have the vote, what will they do with it?
Mar 5, 2002 / Stella Crossley Daljord
Messenger Messenger
The birds stopped coming after the annuals died. I didn't realize how much I missed them until the bluebird Returned, lured by the burgundy haze of the fall pansies Pour...
Feb 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Franklin