Letter from Lebanon Letter from Lebanon
Hostility to the Palestinians has all but evaporated, thanks to Sharon's war.
Apr 25, 2002 / Feature / Adam Shatz
The Torturer’s Apprentice The Torturer’s Apprentice
Alan Dershowitz prides himself on his credentials as a civil libertarian, and to judge by most of the essays in his latest book, Shouting Fire: Civil Liberties in a Turbulent A...
Apr 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / William F. Schulz
In Cold Type In Cold Type
When I was a teenager on my first trip to Paris, I remember looking out at the Parisians from the window of a taxi as we proceeded along some splendid boulevard and thinking, B...
Apr 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
Letters Letters
ENRONED OR NOT, HERE THEY COME Rocky River, Ohio I was unable to digest William Greider's "Enron Democrats" [April 8]. It's important to know about Dems who ...
Apr 25, 2002 / Our Readers
Searching for “Moral Clarity” Searching for “Moral Clarity”
If the rightwing had actual cheerleaders, they would be chanting, "What do we want? Moral clarity! When do we want it? Now." In recent weeks, "moral clarity...
Apr 23, 2002 / David Corn
Breaking the ‘Consensus’ Breaking the ‘Consensus’
On the morning of April 20, in the nation's capital, activists held two anti-war rallies, each of which drew thousands, almost within sight of one another.
Apr 22, 2002 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
Seventy-Five Thousand Protest in Washington Seventy-Five Thousand Protest in Washington
"I think the movement is beginning to wake up," Valerie Mullen, an 80-year-old anti-war activist from Vermont, exclaimed as she surveyed the swelling crowd of people protesting ag...
Apr 21, 2002 / John Nichols
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Pick: THE AMERICAN SOUL: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders.
Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
Smoking Out Smuggling Smoking Out Smuggling
It's hard to imagine a tale of corporate mischief that would shock veteran observers of the US tobacco industry. But even the most jaded reader may raise an eyebrow at the allegat...
Apr 18, 2002 / The Editors
The Sacking of Argentina The Sacking of Argentina
The IMF deserves to be blamed. But so does the country's willing political class.
Apr 18, 2002 / Feature / Tim Frasca