Race: the Continental Divide Race: the Continental Divide
The first moments of a recent documentary about Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Rebels With a Cause, recall one of the signal images of the 1960s civil rights struggle: p...
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz
Bully in the Pulpit? Bully in the Pulpit?
Bully in the Pulpit? The following is a forum on Ellen Willis's "Freedom From Religion," which appeared in the February 19 issue. --The ...
Feb 23, 2001 / Tom Hayden, Michael Eric Dyson, Ellen Willis, Michael Kazin, Frances Kissling, Arthur Hertzberg, Richard Parker, Jim Wallis, and Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
Nader and the Politics of Fear Nader and the Politics of Fear
He and the Greens are both a problem and a possible asset for the Democrats.
Feb 23, 2001 / Feature / William Greider
Little Elegy in G Minor Little Elegy in G Minor
A box of Chopin nocturnes handed down from the other side of my mother's death-- evening gowns in trash bags making a little Golgotha of their own right in the corner of that stud...
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Liu
Right With Bush Right With Bush
Every conservative is now a compassionate conservative. Well, most were at the recent annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which drew more than 3,000 right-wing acti...
Feb 23, 2001 / David Corn
A Democratic Lullaby to Bill Clinton A Democratic Lullaby to Bill Clinton
As Bush finds backs to pat and hands to shake, The Democrats can't seem to buy a break. The opposition doesn't coalesce, Because the spotlight's on the Clinton mess, A ...
Feb 23, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Bush’s Nuclear Revival Bush’s Nuclear Revival
George W. Bush's mid-February directive ordering the Pentagon to review and restructure the US nuclear arsenal is a wake-up call for supporters of arms control and disarmament....
Feb 23, 2001 / William D. Hartung
Thomas Speaks! Thomas Speaks!
Back during the presidential campaign, George W. Bush called Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia his favorite Supreme Court Justices--a remark widely interpreted at the time as ...
Feb 23, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
Letters Letters
THE SUITES & THE SWEATS New York City In "Economists vs. Students" [Feb. 12], Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood cheer on students who demand tha...
Feb 15, 2001 / Doug Henwood, Liza Featherstone, Gene Santoro, and Our Readers
The Embarrassment of the Riches The Embarrassment of the Riches
Are the Clintons better off than they were eight years ago? The evidence appears to point to a resounding yes. So why do they seem to resent the question? Probably because only a f...
Feb 15, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens