Chekhov Takes Wing Chekhov Takes Wing
"Stop all printing of my play. I shall never write another one again." So wrote the frustrated young Dr. Chekhov to his publisher the morning after his new play, The Seagull, wa...
Aug 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carol Rocamora
It’s the Real Thing: Murder It’s the Real Thing: Murder
US employers like Coca-Cola are implicated in Colombia's brutality.
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Aram Roston
West Bank Dreamin’ West Bank Dreamin’
Last night I had the strangest dream... All of America's wealthy, conservative and safely belligerent pundits had been delivered by a just and beneficent Almighty Pow...
Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Sultan’s Brother Does a Service to Humanity The Sultan’s Brother Does a Service to Humanity
The brother of the Sultan of Brunei Set out to see how much a guy could buy, And fifteen billion's what he finally spent Before the sultan voiced some discontent. The guilt o...
Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
‘Changing to Organize’ ‘Changing to Organize’
Unions know what has to be done. Now they have to do it.
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Kate Bronfenbrenner
We Are the World We Are the World
At 5 o'clock in the morning, the radio alarm begins to blare the news. The United States is threatening to pull out of the World Conference Against Racism if the conversati...
Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Hot Air Is Bad for Us Hot Air Is Bad for Us
The current uproar over the posture of the Bush Administration on global warming and, most recently, on power-plant emissions vividly illustrates the political hypocrisy an...
Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Letters Letters
IF I HAD A HAMMER... Bellevue, Wash. I agree with Katrina vanden Heuvel on the necessity of building a better infrastructure to combat the right-wing...
Aug 23, 2001 / Katrina vanden Heuvel, Victor Navasky, and Our Readers
Vagina Monologue Vagina Monologue
In his essay for the catalogue that accompanies "Picasso Érotique," beautifully installed in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until September 16, Jean-Jacques Lebel repro...
Aug 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
More Democracy–Now! More Democracy–Now!
In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Pacifica Radio executive director Bessie Wash said that the Pacifica management's goal "is to increase listenership." In the name...
Aug 23, 2001 / The Editors