In Fact… In Fact…
STUDS'S KIND OF TOWN We join the city of Chicago in congratulating our friend and colleague Studs Terkel on his ninetieth birthday. By mayoral proclamation, May 16 was Studs Terk...
May 23, 2002 / The Editors
The Warning Game The Warning Game
The question is not the 1970s cliché, What did the President know and when did he know it? The appropriate query is, What did US intelligence know--and what did the Pre...
May 23, 2002 / David Corn
Malign Neglect Malign Neglect
Children in New York City's public schools are being shortchanged--again.
May 23, 2002 / Feature / Jonathan Kozol
September 11 Questions September 11 Questions
George W. Bush, it is true, did not create the FBI's smug, insular, muscle-bound bureaucracy or the CIA's well-known penchant for loopy spy tips and wrongheaded geopolitical analy...
May 23, 2002 / The Editors
The Israel Lobby The Israel Lobby
On May 2 the Senate, in a vote of 94 to 2, and the House, 352 to 21, expressed unqualified support for Israel in its recent military actions against the Palestinians. The resol...
May 23, 2002 / Michael Massing
Letters Letters
TORTURE 'OFF THE BOOKS'? Cambridge, Mass. William Schulz, in his respectful but selectively critical review of "less than two of [Shouting Fire]'s 550 page...
May 23, 2002 / Eric Alterman, William F. Schulz, and Our Readers
Knowledge (and Power) Knowledge (and Power)
For Senator Clinton to flourish a copy of the New York Post--the paper that has called her pretty much everything from Satanic to Sapphist--merely because it had the pungent headli...
May 23, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
McKinney Redux McKinney Redux
During the long months of post-September 11 presidential invincibility, no member of Congress climbed further out on the what-did-Bush-know-when limb than Representative Cynthia M...
May 23, 2002 / John Nichols
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Pick: THE PARANOID STYLE IN AMERICAN POLITICS and Other Essays.
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
The ‘Talibanization’ of Bangladesh The ‘Talibanization’ of Bangladesh
"I stand before you all today with a heavy heart to tell the tales of the endless raging minority cleansing campaign," declared Dwijen Bhattacharjya at the International Conferenc...
May 18, 2002 / Feature / Ruth Baldwin