Politics

Elliott Abrams: It’s Back! Elliott Abrams: It’s Back!

"How would you feel if your wife and children were brutally raped before being hacked to death by soldiers during a military massacre of 800 civilians, and then two governments tr...

Jun 14, 2001 / David Corn

Star Wars Foes Hit DC Star Wars Foes Hit DC

The two sisters from the Our Lady of Angels convent had driven down from Pennsylvania with a message for their Congressman: Say no to Star Wars. It was proving a tough sell.

Jun 13, 2001 / Feature / Matt Bivens

Japan: An Interpretation Japan: An Interpretation

Those inscrutable Japanese. They've inspired more trash between hard covers over the past century than anyone--far more than the Chinese, if that's what you're thinking. Mysteriou...

Jun 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith

The Republicans and John McCain The Republicans and John McCain

They thought that Jeffords was their bane, But now they see that John McCain, Who shrugs off efforts to restrain His longtime love of speaking plain, And likes to jerk George...

Jun 7, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Universe of Faith and Terror Universe of Faith and Terror

Let's begin with a Denis Johnson moment. One Saturday, in Los Angeles, I venture out to buy a newspaper; when I get home, I discover, wedged between its C and D sections, a grainy...

Jun 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / David L. Ulin

Letters Letters

...AND APPLE PIE Ravello, Italy Katha Pollitt's heart-wrenching "Happy Mother's Day" was, of course, a treat ["Subject to Debate," May 28]. But the crystalli...

Jun 7, 2001 / Alexander Cockburn, Gore Vidal, Ken Silverstein, Susan Sontag, Gila Svirsky, Tarek Milleron, Matthew Runci, Holly Burkhalter, and Nathaniel A. Raymond

The Dogmeteers The Dogmeteers

It's been six years since Dogme 95 nailed its ten-point "Vow of Chastity" to the door of world cinema. Lars von Trier's gang of four Danish film rebels flung an inkwell at the fat...

Jun 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo

Harvard’s ‘Fitting Choice’ Harvard’s ‘Fitting Choice’

On July 1 Larry Summers--the Wunderkind economist who ran the Treasury Department under President Clinton--takes over as president of Harvard University. "A fitting choice," edito...

Jun 7, 2001 / Matt Bivens

McCain in Vain? McCain in Vain?

In Washington, all politics is personality. Or so it often seems. After the Jim Jeffords jump, the media zoomed in on Senator John McCain and breathlessly penned a new chapter in ...

Jun 7, 2001 / David Corn

Bush’s Tax Savings: Unreal! Bush’s Tax Savings: Unreal!

A Nation analysis finds that benefits to Bush, Cheney and the Cabinet could top million.

Jun 7, 2001 / Feature / Michael Scherer

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