A Nation at Risk A Nation at Risk
A year ago Congress overwhelmingly approved George W.
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Peter Sacks
Taslima’s Pilgrimage Taslima’s Pilgrimage
"A war was about to start. Knots of wide-eyed people gathered in courtyards, in open fields, on street corners....
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Meredith Tax
Excursions in the Real World Excursions in the Real World
Why is so much fiction written in our language and why is so much of what is written of so little consequence?
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith
Sociobiology and You Sociobiology and You
If Steven Pinker's latest 500-page treatise on the brain, The Blank Slate, serves any wider purpose in the popular discussion of science issues, it will, one hopes, be the fina...
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Steven Johnson
The Real IRA The Real IRA
This is the best book yet written about the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eamonn McCann
Wellstone in Washington: A Remembrance Wellstone in Washington: A Remembrance
Washington loved Paul Wellstone more in death than in life.
In the days following his demise in an airplane crash--which also claimed the lives of h...
Oct 30, 2002 / David Corn
Mourning Wellstone, Preparing for Nov. 5 Mourning Wellstone, Preparing for Nov. 5
MINNEAPOLIS -- "We pay tribute to a leader -- a true DFL liberal..." shouted US Senator Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, invoking the initials and the ideological tradition of the Minnesota De...
Oct 30, 2002 / John Nichols
More Surveillance on the Way More Surveillance on the Way
The USA Patriot Act was passed with much fanfare last October, but it was soon clear that lawmakers passed the package without examining all the parts.
Oct 30, 2002 / Feature / Robin Mejia
Bob Dylan, Dick Cheney and Paul Wellstone Bob Dylan, Dick Cheney and Paul Wellstone
Most Americans had no idea where Eveleth, Minnesota, was until they saw the maps showing where Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife and daughter, three staffers and two pilots perishe...
Oct 29, 2002 / John Nichols