The Berenson Verdict The Berenson Verdict
Last August, amid the final throes of President Alberto Fujimori's scandal-ridden administration in Peru, he bowed to US pressure and announced that Lori Berenson's conviction by ...
Jun 28, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
Making Waves Making Waves
Thomas Jefferson was not anticipating a summer holiday when he told Lafayette that "the boisterous sea of liberty indeed is never without a wave." In Philadelphia, where Jefferson...
Jun 28, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
Open Letter to Left-Wing Magazines, Including Us Open Letter to Left-Wing Magazines, Including Us
The census makes clear about Latinos what many of us have known for a long time: The power of culture and character is now reinforced by demographics. From a small minority strugg...
Jun 28, 2001 / Editorial / Earl Shorris
Needed: Rx for Drug Costs Needed: Rx for Drug Costs
John Elias, my patient, has a dilemma. He can't afford to buy his medicines and also pay his rent. I'm sure he won't give up his apartment just to keep his veins filled with my ch...
Jun 28, 2001 / Editorial / Dr. Marc Siegel
Supreme Injustice Supreme Injustice
Click here to review some of the more perceptive comments on the Scalia Five's judicial coup d'etat.
Jun 23, 2001 / Editorial / Steve Cobble
Social Security Heist Social Security Heist
With the Bush Administration, the corruption isn't hidden in the Lincoln Bedroom. It's paraded in your face. On June 18 Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill lunched with executives of ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
Flunking the Tests Flunking the Tests
Democrats and Republicans alike are claiming the education bill as a victory. The national testing plan--mandating annual tests in grades three through eight, plus one in high sch...
Jun 21, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
Liberating Vieques Liberating Vieques
When George W. Bush announced from Sweden on June 14 that he planned to pull the US Navy out of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques by 2003, it struck some as odd when he referred ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Editorial / Angelo Falcón
Annan’s AIDS Crusade Annan’s AIDS Crusade
On a late June day that will surely have been picked by the political astrologers around him, Kofi Annan of Ghana will likely be coronated for a second five-year term as Secretary...
Jun 21, 2001 / Editorial / Pranay Gupte
In Fact… In Fact…
FIRST AMENDMENT BEDFELLOWS Every once in a while it behooves this 135-year-old journal (136 on July 5!) to remind ourselves that, like the broken clock that is right twice a day,...
Jun 21, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors