The Legacy of Guantánamo The Legacy of Guantánamo
The hard lessons of Guantánamo have yet to be learned, while many of the old mistakes are being repeated.
Jul 14, 2003 / Feature / Lizzy Ratner
Murdoch’s Extended Reach Murdoch’s Extended Reach
Rupert Murdoch will soon become an even more powerful presence in the US.
Jul 10, 2003 / Feature / Jeffrey Chester
Miles Davis Miles Davis
Most of what we know about the life of Miles Davis is either anecdotal or a matter of official record, and thus not absolutely reliable; but by all accounts, most pertinently h...
Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Lucius Shepard
Paul Wellstone Paul Wellstone
When Paul Wellstone perished in a plane crash along with his wife, his daughter and three members of his staff in October 2002, the horror of his death nearly overshadowed the ...
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Joe Conason
Bob Moses Bob Moses
Late one night in October 1961, I flew from Atlanta to Jackson, Mississippi, with Bob Moses.
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Dorothy Day Dorothy Day
In the final days of Rudy Giuliani's term as mayor of New York, three months after the heroism of 9/11, he quietly approved a politically wired project to build twenty-five mul...
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Wayne Barrett and Chris Barrett
Woody Guthrie Woody Guthrie
When Bob Dylan took the stage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, all leather and Ray-Bans and Beatle boots, and declared emphatically and (heaven forbid) electrically that he w...
Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Steve Earle
Benjamin Mays Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays--devout Christian minister, uncompromising advocate for justice, career educator and longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta--was called the "Sc...
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Roger Wilkins
Margaret Sanger Margaret Sanger
"No Gods, No Masters," the rallying cry of the Industrial Workers of the World, was her personal and political manifesto.
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Ellen Chesler
Bella Abzug Bella Abzug
"I've been described as a tough noisy woman--a prizefighter--a man-hater...a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy.
Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Patricia Bosworth