The US Caged–For Now The US Caged–For Now
Alfred Hitchcock was fond of McGuffins--meaningless plot devices on which the characters obsess while the real, gruesome story moves on elsewhere.
Dec 5, 2002 / Editorial / Ian Williams
Censorship 101 Censorship 101
Annals of Higher Education: If recent events at Stanford and Harvard are any indication, the past decade's earnest debates over "political correctness" are over, replaced by ro...
Dec 5, 2002 / Editorial / Bruce Shapiro
Prize for Dolores Huerta Prize for Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta flouts the smug conventional wisdom that the 1960s are behind us. She won't settle down and become an anachronism.
Dec 5, 2002 / Editorial / Tom Hayden
Nation Notes Nation Notes
The 2002 Daniel Singer Millennium Prize has been awarded to Staughton Lynd, labor historian, lawyer and longtime radical activist.
Dec 5, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors
Going Down the Road Going Down the Road
On election morning, I opened the front section of the New York Times and immediately got a bad feeling. Positioned prominently on page A3 was an eye-catching and ominous ad.
Dec 5, 2002 / Editorial / Jim Hightower
Into the Breach Into the Breach
The Democratic muddle continues in post-election hangover. The corporate wing of the party, the Democratic Leadership Council, once more urges the party to move even further to...
Dec 4, 2002 / Editorial / Robert L. Borosage
What Price Security? What Price Security?
Now, here's what the deal's supposed to be: In exchange for greater security you give up certain rights.
Nov 26, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors
Containing Saddam Containing Saddam
Critics of America's plans to oust Saddam Hussein militarily have mounted powerful arguments, but not one has articulated a coherent nonmilitary strategy to bring about the dem...
Nov 26, 2002 / Editorial / Andrew Mack
The Grubman The Grubman
The financial scandals continue to produce more outrageous revelations, but lately they come with lurid personal details more appropriate to bottom-dwelling tabloids than the W...
Nov 26, 2002 / Editorial / William Greider
Quiet in Hollywood Quiet in Hollywood
The Quiet American, which recently opened for a two-week run in a couple of theaters in New York and Los Angeles, illustrates just how far Hollywood self-censorship has gone in...
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener