Nation Notes Nation Notes
Patricia J. Williams returns to our pages this week with a tough analysis of Justice Antonin Scalia's faith-based jurisprudence.
Sep 19, 2002 / The Editors
Police Academy in the Alps Police Academy in the Alps
The tax-supported Marshall Center offers more fun and games than war games.
Sep 19, 2002 / Feature / Ken Silverstein
An Entire Class of Thieves An Entire Class of Thieves
When Len Bias died of a cocaine overdose back in 1986 Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan raced each other to show the world who could punish the poor quickest and hardest.
Sep 19, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
De-Saddamization, Not Disarmament De-Saddamization, Not Disarmament
"No sensible person wants to go to war if war can be avoided." So said Secretary of State Colin Powell on September 15. Next time he is at the White House,...
Sep 18, 2002 / David Corn
Curtain Call for the Puppet Show Curtain Call for the Puppet Show
On August 1, 2000, Philadelphia police rounded up seventy-five activists inside a West Philadelphia warehouse. It was the second day of the Republican National Convention, and th...
Sep 17, 2002 / Feature / Gwen Shaffer
US Rep. Rahall Speaks in Iraq US Rep. Rahall Speaks in Iraq
US Rep. Nick Rahall's policy pronouncements tend toward announcements about extending water and sewer service in southern West Virginia, or the erection of safety barriers on dang...
Sep 17, 2002 / John Nichols
Gujarat’s Gendered Violence Gujarat’s Gendered Violence
Women's bodies were central battlegrounds in the worst bout of Hindu-Muslim bloodletting to grip India in over ten years, in the western Indian state of Gujarat beginning on Fe...
Sep 16, 2002 / Feature / Ruth Baldwin
Bush Tells UN, Make War or I Will Bush Tells UN, Make War or I Will
Let us stipulate that Saddam Hussein is a scumbag. He has run a brutal and murderous dictatorship, repressed significant numbers of his people, sought to de...
Sep 12, 2002 / David Corn
Slut Patrol Slut Patrol
In some parts of China, local officials keep track of women's menstrual periods. We haven't come to that, but anyone who thinks women's reproductive and sexual privacy is secure in...
Sep 12, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Legacy of the Battle for Seattle The Legacy of the Battle for Seattle
Mike Dolan, one of the principal organizers of the "Battle of Seattle" three years ago, returned in late August--with Jim Hightower's Rolling Thunder DownHome Democracy Tour--to ...
Sep 12, 2002 / Feature / Tom Hayden