Katha Pollitt Honored Katha Pollitt Honored
Congratulations to Katha Pollitt, winner of the National Magazine Award in the Columns and Commentary category. Katha also won the 1992 award in Essays & Criticism.
May 8, 2003 / The Editors
SARS and Inequality SARS and Inequality
Over the past few months, yet another epidemic has come to trouble our unhappy world. Shortly after SARS was identified, the entire globe was put on notice.
May 8, 2003 / Paul Farmer
McCarthy’s Secret Show McCarthy’s Secret Show
Victor Navasky's Naming Names (Hill & Wang) was recently reissued in paperback with a new afterword.
May 8, 2003 / Victor Navasky
Dean’s No Wellstone Dean’s No Wellstone
Lately, presidential contender Howard Dean has been likening himself to the late Senator Paul Wellstone.
May 8, 2003 / Jim Farrell
Scandal on Scandal Scandal on Scandal
The best names in Wall Street, who besmirched themselves with double-dealing stock-market scandals, were finally "punished" recently, and the miscreants could not contain their...
May 8, 2003 / The Editors
Freedom of Choice Talking Points Freedom of Choice Talking Points
Though polls consistently show a majority of Americans supporting freedom of choice, abortion rights are facing their greatest attack since the Supreme Court decision Roe V.
May 1, 2003 / Jonah Engle
Fear and Its Discontents Fear and Its Discontents
I n March for my online column "Ask Dr.
May 1, 2003 / Dr. Marc Siegel
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
Now that the regime of Saddam Hussein has been overthrown, the Bush Administration, like a submarine that, having successfully sunk one ship, resurfaces its periscope to find o...
May 1, 2003 / Jonathan Schell
Axing Higher Ed Axing Higher Ed
One of the many casualties of our national obsession with the war on Iraq is the emerging crisis of America's public colleges and universities.
May 1, 2003 / Stanley Aronowitz
Sodomy for Some Sodomy for Some
So it looks like Rick Santorum won't go the way of Trent Lott.
May 1, 2003 / Richard Kim