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April 15, 2002 Issue

Matt Bivens reports that a revolution of new energy sources is fast approaching, Christopher Hitchens excoriates Billy Graham and theocratic…

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Editorial

In Fact…

AWARDS TIME

The Nation is a finalist in the single-topic-issue category of the National Magazine Awards for "Death Trip: The American Way of Execution" (Jan. 8/15, 2001...

Lieberman in Enronland

It has come to this: The investigation of Enron as a political scandal appears for now to depend on Senator Joseph Lieberman, an Enron Democrat who bagged Enron campaign contri...

Oscar Opens the Door

As Halle Berry elegantly strode to the podium to accept her best actress Oscar, the first for a black woman, she wept uncontrollably and gasped, "This moment is so much bigger ...

Free Trade Bush’s Way

On the eve of George W. Bush's recent tour of Latin America, Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes equated the advantages of a global free market with the peaks of the Himalayas, chara...

Column

The God Squad

Was it lack of space or was it lack of time that made Katha Pollitt so bland and lenient about the current state of religious leadership in our country and our culture ["Go...

Letters

Feature

Monterrey and the World

How are we to read the International Conference on Financing for Development, which recently concluded in Monterrey, Mexico? Just another United Nations talkathon?

Right Watch

With compromise legislation stranded in Congress, the report card on the President's faith-based initiative reads "incomplete." Bush, however, has clearly succeeded o...

Books & the Arts

Have Car, Will Travel

If you're in the mood to see great acting, I recommend that you watch Aurélien Recoing get caught in a lie in Laurent Cantet's Time Out. As Vincent, a French mana...

Oscar Opens the Door

As Halle Berry elegantly strode to the podium to accept her best actress Oscar, the first for a black woman, she wept uncontrollably and gasped, "This moment is so much bigger ...

Song of the Sunshine State

Campbell McGrath's entertaining and frustrating fifth book of poems--every single one of them devoted to some aspect of Florida--raises two large questions. One has to do with ...

The Fishnet Fallacy

When a girl becomes her school's designated slut, her friends stop talking to her. Pornographic rumors spread with dazzling efficiency, boys harass her openly in the hallways, ...

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