MUD-Wrestling in California MUD-Wrestling in California
San Franciscans will vote on whether to create a public power company.
Oct 25, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols
Twin Peaks Twin Peaks
Lifestyle sections have lately been detailing the public's renewed appetite for comfort food. If that rice-pudding desire translates to the big screen, then cinematic fairy tales t...
Oct 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / B. Ruby Rich
Day-O, an Afghan Calypso Day-O, an Afghan Calypso
(With apologies to Harry Belafonte, among others) Bombed all night by dat Yankee bunch Daylight come and de bombers go home Now dey'll drop some cashew crunch Daylight ...
Oct 25, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Homeland Insecurity Homeland Insecurity
It is hard to write a column like this under the present circumstances. It is hard to comment on what is happening in the world if the military regulates everything. And yet it i...
Oct 25, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Letters Letters
MUDDLED NATION New York City On October 11, an alliance of Latinos, blacks and union members came close to a historic victory in New York. Alas, media rang...
Oct 25, 2001 / Our Readers
A Legal Recounting A Legal Recounting
Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is an intellectual force to be reckoned with. The author, seemingly, of more books written whil...
Oct 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Leonard H. Becker
Never Shut Up, New York Never Shut Up, New York
Al Giordano is currently a free-speech defendant in the New York State Supreme Court [see Mark Schapiro, "Drug War on Trial," September 17, 2001].
Oct 25, 2001 / Feature / Al Giordano
Anthrax Anxiety Anthrax Anxiety
Jitters are not among the clinical symptoms of anthrax.
Oct 18, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
A Simple Twist of Fate A Simple Twist of Fate
Serendipity is rotten cotton candy. No, more like actual cotton dipped in rich, drippy chocolate--the confection hawked by Catch-22's greedhead Milo Minderbinder. About a quarter ...
Oct 18, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo
False Positive False Positive
As a child, while waiting for my weekly piano lesson to start, I used to read with pleasure Erma Bombeck's column as it appeared in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette. What prehom...
Oct 18, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain