Better Safe…? Better Safe…?
In my last column, I called the expansion of profiling that has occurred since September 11 "equal opportunity." I meant it ironically, but a surprising number of people took me ...
Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Letters Letters
BRIDEFARE OF FRANKENSTEIN Minneapolis Katha Pollitt ["$hotgun Weddings," Feb. 4] makes many very excellent points about the horrors of "bridefare," but she...
Feb 21, 2002 / Our Readers
White Must Go White Must Go
Thomas White, the former Enron vice chairman appointed by George W. Bush to be Secretary of the Army, should resign immediately. The case against White is self-evident. Touted as...
Feb 21, 2002 / Robert L. Borosage
Unhappy Anniversary Unhappy Anniversary
The McLaughlin Group is about to "celebrate" its twentieth anniversary. We might as well "celebrate" the discovery of anthrax. The show flatters itself--and its corporate ...
Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
Evil: The Quadruple Axel Evil: The Quadruple Axel
The hoofprints of Lucifer are everywhere. And since this is America, eternally at war with the darker forces, the foremost Enemy Within is sex, no quarter given. Here are some bu...
Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
From Protest To Politics From Protest To Politics
A report from Porto Alegre on the "antiglobalization" movement.
Feb 21, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Iran/Contra Rehab Iran/Contra Rehab
The Bush Administration is turning into one big rehab center for the Iran/contra schemers of the Reagan/Bush White House. The latest case involves retired Adm. John Poindexter, w...
Feb 21, 2002 / David Corn
Seeking ‘Convulsive Beauty’ Seeking ‘Convulsive Beauty’
The legendary Surrealist exhibitions of the late 1930s and early 1940s were Surrealist in spirit and secondarily Surrealist in content. In 1942, for example, an exhibition called...
Feb 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Homeland Security Initiative The Homeland Security Initiative
Barbara Coe is not your typical sixty-something silver-haired-senior-in-polyester.
Feb 21, 2002 / Feature / Bill Berkowitz
Protesting Black Hawk Down Protesting Black Hawk Down
It's one thing to have Somali groups protesting Black Hawk Down for what they say is an inaccurate and racist portrayal of Somalis.
Feb 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Adrian Brune