July 23, 2001 Issue

Feature

Death on the Installment Plan

In Terre Haute, the effects of one execution are only the beginning.
Jonathan Shainin
Living Wage Comes of Age

An increasingly sophisticated movement has put opponents on the defensive.
Bobbi Murray
Unite and Conquer

Bobbi Murray
Springtime for Nuclear

Forget Three Mile Island! The buzzword now is “environmentally preferable.”
Bill Mesler
Ashcroft Justice

Bush’s Attorney General is moving the conservative agenda predicted by critics.
Diana R. Gordon
Till Earth and Heaven Ring

The NAACP is back, and it plans on being heard.
Bob Dreyfuss
Letter From Palestine

The mood in the occupied territories is one of growing rage and despair.
Roane Carey
Plan Colombia Broadens

These days, the buzz on Capitol Hill seems loudest about Gary Condit.
Jason Vest
The Battle of Genoa

Organizers of the anti-G8 protest in Genoa say that 200,000 people came from all over Italy and Europe to join the mammoth demonstration yesterday.
Walden Bello

Column

Politics 2001: Bush Rules, Gore Drools

Robert Scheer
A Strong Dollar Clouds Prospects For Quick Rebound

–Headline, New York Times

The dollar’s strong. That must be good.
It’s doing what a dollar should.
Not so.
The world cannot afford our junk.
You see: It’s never what you thunk.
Go know!
Calvin Trillin
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s… Superclone?

Is human cloning a feminist issue?
Katha Pollitt
Israel Shahak, 1933-2001

Christopher Hitchens
Can Truth Outlast a Green Light for Media Mergers?

Should the corporate owners of newspapers like the Los Angeles Times or the New York Post be allowed to own television stations in the same city?
Robert Scheer

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