March 25, 2002 Issue

Feature

Central Asia’s Heroin Problem

From Afghan farms into the Tajik mountains, the drug trade cuts a wide swath.
Aram Roston
The Senate’s Fighting Liberal

Sen. Ted Kennedy has passed away at the age of 77. This 2002 Nation profile by the late Jack Newfield captures the essence of what this legend meant to the progressive movement.
Jack Newfield
Terror in the Pyrenees

ETA is losing legitimacy, but many Basques still feel unable to condemn it.
Miren Gutierrez
Colin Powell’s List

The targeting of “terrorist” groups harks back to earlier repression of dissent.
Bob Dreyfuss
Company Man

“Debacle in Kwangju.” Were Washington’s cables read as a green light for the 1980 Korean massacre? (1996)

“Stiglitz Roars Back” (2001)
Tim Shorrock
Welfare Moms Go to Washington

“I went down to Tommy Thompson’s house,” the crowd sang.
Liza Featherstone

Column

Virtual Reality

Patricia J. Williams
The Bush Plan for a Shadow Government

A place was found for Mr. Cheney
Where, even if the missiles rain, he
Can carry on his governing nonstop.
They then found bunkers down so far
That closed-lip Bushies even are
More secretive than they have been on top.

So if some heinous act occurred,
Our continuity’s assured:
The government will run forevermore.
And since the Congress has no caves,
There’ll be no Waxmans to make waves–
Which should make things much smoother than before.
Calvin Trillin
The Nightmare in Israel

Alexander Cockburn
Back Into the Muck

Eric Alterman
The Fallout of Desperation

The news that the Pentagon had secret contingency plans to fight terrorism with nuclear weapons has the marks not of considered military doctrine but rather of an infantile tantrum born of the Bu
Robert Scheer

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