June 24, 2002 Issue

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Features

Ripped, Mixed-Up and Burned

On May 14, 2002, the first wave of Internet file-sharing died.

Daphne G. Carr
The Arms Lobby

William D. Hartung is the author of "About Face," a World Policy Institute report on the role of the arms lobby in shaping the Bush nuclear doctrine. Click here.

William D. Hartung
Classroom Consciousness

In mid-December, 2,500 teenagers walked out of their Philadelphia public high school classrooms and into the city's intersections.

Alissa Quart
The Growing Nuclear Peril

A more virulent nuclear era has superseded the perils of the cold war.

Jonathan Schell
Saying No to Nuclear Arms

Calls for an end to nuclear weapons are growing--including in Washington.

Raffi Khatchadourian
Unions on the Net

Joel Rogers and Richard B. Freeman
A Proposal to American Labor

Let's create "open-source unions," and welcome millions into the movement.

Joel Rogers and Richard B. Freeman
End the Nuclear Danger: An Urgent Call

Jonathan Schell , David Cortright and Randall Caroline Forsberg

Columns

Arafat, by Feeding on Martyrdom, Dooms His People

Yasser Arafat should step aside.

Robert Scheer
Oslo or Helsinki?

The pervasive assumption among nearly all of Oslo's proponents was that the undemocratic nature of Yasser Arafat's regime, far from being an obstacle to peace, was actually a strategic asset.

Christopher Hitchens
Special Rights for the Godly?

Katha Pollitt
Cheney’s Head: An Explanation

One mystery I've tried to disentangle:
Why Cheney's head is always at an angle.
He tries to come on straight, and yet I can't
Help notice that his head is at a slant.
When Cheney's questioned on the Sunday shows,
The Voice of Reason is his favorite pose.
He drones in monotones. He never smiles--
Explaining why some suspects don't need trials,
Or why right now it simply stands to reason
That criticizing Bush amounts to treason,
Or which important precept it would spoil
To know who wrote our policy on oil,
Or why as CEO he wouldn't know
What Halliburton's books were meant to show.
And as he speaks I've kept a careful check
On when his head's held crooked on his neck.
The code is broken, after years of trying:
He only cocks his head when he is lying.

Calvin Trillin

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