December 16, 2002 Issue

Feature

Legal Victory for Airport Screeners

A federal judge hands nine workers an unexpected victory in their battle against a law requiring citizenship for all airport screeners.
Michael Flaherty
Letter From Chile

Neoliberalism has produced an eco-crisis.
Jimmy Langman
Blacks and the Democratic Party

Voters felt devalued and heard no message, so many of them stayed home.
Ron Walters
Pentagon Hawks Take Wing

A new Defense Department spy office could politicize intelligence gathering.
Jason Vest
Letter to America

Resentment of US policies is growing.
Jürgen Habermas
Wal-Mart Values

Selling women short.
Liza Featherstone

Editorial

Mumia’s Appeal

Mumia’s Appeal After decades of legal and political maneuvering, the twenty-year-old death-penalty case of black journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal is entering a critical stage.
Dave Lindorff
Hunger USA

Tony Hall, just before leaving Congress in September, sat in his office in Longworth House Office Building and thought of something that had stuck with him since a trip to Appalachia.
David Sarasohn
Quiet in Hollywood

The Quiet American, which recently opened for a two-week run in a couple of theaters in New York and Los Angeles, illustrates just how far Hollywood self-censorship has gone in the year
Jon Wiener
The Grubman

The financial scandals continue to produce more outrageous revelations, but lately they come with lurid personal details more appropriate to bottom-dwelling tabloids than the Wall Street Jou
William Greider

Containing Saddam

Critics of America’s plans to oust Saddam Hussein militarily have mounted powerful arguments, but not one has articulated a coherent nonmilitary strategy to bring about the demise of the monstr
Andrew Mack

What Price Security?

Now, here’s what the deal’s supposed to be: In exchange for greater security you give up certain rights.
The Editors

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Column

Want a Cover-Up Expert? Kissinger’s Your Man

The President clearly does not want to know the truth about September 11.
Robert Scheer

Inspections: The White House Fallback Position

If nothing shows in spyplane pics
And Blix finds nothing in the sticks,
That still won’t put us in a fix.
We’ll blame it on Iraqi tricks,
Calvin Trillin

Total Information, Total Confusion

So let’s join Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Edward “Pete” Aldridge at a recent Pentagon press briefing, where he’s addressing concerns about the Pentagon
Alexander Cockburn

Ask the Relativist

Dear Dr. Madlaw,
As a newly elected member of Congress, I am appalled at the high cost of living in Washington. What’s a hard-working public servant to do?
Patricia J. Williams

Books & the Arts

What Are They Reading?

Secret societies are manna for conspiracy theorists, and few are more secret or more conspiracy-nourishing than Yale’s Skull and Bones.
Doug Henwood

The Call of the Junco Bird

An English woman I’ve never met
calls to read me her new poem
about the little Texas junco bird
whose cry sounded to the early settlers
Edward Hirsch

Wheeling My Father Through the Alzheimer’s Ward

Here where everyone forgets everything,
including where they are
or what they are fighting to remember,
Edward Hirsch

Blowin’ in a New Wind

Ani DiFranco
Gene Santoro

Rethinking the Movement

As any casual observer of mega-bookstore shelves knows, the history of the modern civil rights movement is a well-studied field.
Eric Arnesen

‘Obscure as That Heaven of the Jews’

In the rabbi’s parable a lame one climbs
Onto a blind one’s shoulders and together
They take the fruit of the garden of the Lord.
Robert Pinsky

The New Apartheid

Ashwin Desai’s “We Are the Poors” is one of the best books yet on globalization and resistance.
Naomi Klein

Quiet in Hollywood

The Quiet American, which recently opened for a two-week run in a couple of theaters in New York and Los Angeles, illustrates just how far Hollywood self-censorship has gone in the year
Jon Wiener

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The Hitchens-Pollitt Papers

Washington, DC

My dear Katha,
Christopher Hitchens and Katha Pollitt

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December 16, 2002 Issue

Feature

A federal judge hands nine workers an unexpected victory in their battle against a law requiring citizenship for all airport screeners.

Neoliberalism has produced an eco-crisis.

Voters felt devalued and heard no message, so many of them stayed home.

A new Defense Department spy office could politicize intelligence gathering.

Resentment of US policies is growing.

Selling women short.

Editorial

Mumia’s Appeal After decades of legal and political maneuvering, the twenty-year-old death-penalty case of black journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal is entering a critical stage.

Tony Hall, just before leaving Congress in September, sat in his office in Longworth House Office Building and thought of something that had stuck with him since a trip to Appalachia.

The Quiet American, which recently opened for a two-week run in a couple of theaters in New York and Los Angeles, illustrates just how far Hollywood self-censorship has gone in the year

The financial scandals continue to produce more outrageous revelations, but lately they come with lurid personal details more appropriate to bottom-dwelling tabloids than the Wall Street Jou

Critics of America’s plans to oust Saddam Hussein militarily have mounted powerful arguments, but not one has articulated a coherent nonmilitary strategy to bring about the demise of the monstr

Now, here’s what the deal’s supposed to be: In exchange for greater security you give up certain rights.

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Column

The President clearly does not want to know the truth about September 11.

If nothing shows in spyplane pics And Blix finds nothing in the sticks, That still won’t put us in a fix. We’ll blame it on Iraqi tricks,

So let’s join Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Edward “Pete” Aldridge at a recent Pentagon press briefing, where he’s addressing concerns about the Pentagon

Dear Dr. Madlaw, As a newly elected member of Congress, I am appalled at the high cost of living in Washington. What’s a hard-working public servant to do?

Books & the Arts

Secret societies are manna for conspiracy theorists, and few are more secret or more conspiracy-nourishing than Yale’s Skull and Bones.

An English woman I’ve never met calls to read me her new poem about the little Texas junco bird whose cry sounded to the early settlers

Here where everyone forgets everything, including where they are or what they are fighting to remember,

Ani DiFranco

As any casual observer of mega-bookstore shelves knows, the history of the modern civil rights movement is a well-studied field.

In the rabbi’s parable a lame one climbs Onto a blind one’s shoulders and together They take the fruit of the garden of the Lord.

Ashwin Desai’s “We Are the Poors” is one of the best books yet on globalization and resistance.

The Quiet American, which recently opened for a two-week run in a couple of theaters in New York and Los Angeles, illustrates just how far Hollywood self-censorship has gone in the year

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Letters

Washington, DC My dear Katha,

If nothing shows in spyplane pics
And Blix finds nothing in the sticks,
That still won’t put us in a fix.
We’ll blame it on Iraqi tricks,

Dear Dr. Madlaw,
As a newly elected member of Congress, I am appalled at the high cost of living in Washington. What’s a hard-working public servant to do?

An English woman I’ve never met
calls to read me her new poem
about the little Texas junco bird
whose cry sounded to the early settlers

Here where everyone forgets everything,
including where they are
or what they are fighting to remember,

In the rabbi’s parable a lame one climbs
Onto a blind one’s shoulders and together
They take the fruit of the garden of the Lord.

Washington, DC

My dear Katha,