Mexico at the Multiplex Mexico at the Multiplex
B. Ruby Rich reviews the films Amores Perros and Spy Kids.
Apr 26, 2001 / Books & the Arts / B. Ruby Rich
Will China Deign to Give Us Back Our Plane? Will China Deign to Give Us Back Our Plane?
(With apologies to Alan Jay Lerner) Will China deign to give us back our plane? We know they've got it. Will China deign to give us back our plane? For sure, they've got it. It goes against our grain To explain. It's a pain. And yet they still retain Our plane. Our plane! Will China deign to give us back our plane? Will China deign to give us back our plane? What more can they obtain That's germane from our plane? In vain do we complain. It's plain insane! Their government is truly inhumane, So should we bomb them into beef chow mein?
Apr 26, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Bush’s Contra Buddies Bush’s Contra Buddies
The current President George Bush, whose very name evokes a dark era many would prefer to forget, seems determined to resurrect the ghosts of America's scandal-ridden past. A numb...
Apr 19, 2001 / Peter Kornbluh
No to Global Sweatshops No to Global Sweatshops
New York's City Council is about to open a promising new front in the global struggle against sweatshop exploitation--a city procurement ordinance that requires decent wages and f...
Apr 19, 2001 / William Greider
Corporate Welfare Spoils Corporate Welfare Spoils
In one of the most foolish and cruelly ironic urban public policy decisions in recent memory, New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani are planning...
Apr 19, 2001 / Ralph Nader
The Beat The Beat
THE RIGHT 'CHOICE' In the first statewide race since the presidential election, Wisconsin voters gave George W. Bush's education program a failing grade. They overwhelmingly reject...
Apr 19, 2001 / Column / John Nichols
Retro Retro
The corporate types are firmly in control. The Russians, it appears, have sent a mole To steal our secrets. And the Chinese wait For tension to develop in their Strait. It's ...
Apr 19, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Letters Letters
WHAT'S GERMAN FOR 'SWEATSHOP'? Marburg, Germany Since Jonah Peretti's "My Nike Media Adventure" [April 9] did not mention coverage in continental Europe, I w...
Apr 19, 2001 / Our Readers
Lie to the Media, Get a Job Lie to the Media, Get a Job
Perhaps I underestimate the joy of being given a silly nickname by the Leader of the Free World, but I'm having a hard time understanding why media big feet are so taken by the n...
Apr 19, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Justice Scotched in Lockerbie Trial Justice Scotched in Lockerbie Trial
There's a famous passage in Lord Cockburn's Memorials of His Time where the great Scotch judge and leading Whig stigmatizes some of his Tory predecessors on the bench, including ...
Apr 19, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn