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Feature
‘We Better Do Something’: Toni Morrison and Cornel West in Conversation
In 1993 the Nobel Prize-winning author and the Princeton professor sat down to discuss blues, love, and politics.
Toni Morrison and Cornel West
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America’s Last Honest Place
Las Vegas is capitalism stripped bare. If you’re out of money, you’re out of luck.
Marc Cooper
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Editorial
Exporting America’s Prison Problems
In 1997 a 29-year-old schizophrenic inmate named Michael Valent was stripped naked and strapped to a restraining chair by Utah prison staff because he refused to take a pillowcase off his head.
Dan Frosch
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Mean Green Job Machine
The presidential campaigns and their armies of consultants are well aware that a jittery American public yearns for jobs.
Paula DiPerna
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Bhopal’s Legacy
Every December for the past nineteen years, marchers in Bhopal, India, have paraded an effigy of Warren Anderson through town and burned it. Anderson is despised because he was the CEO of Union
Mark Hertsgaard
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Stonewalling on Wilson
The publication of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s book, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity, affords a fresh opportunity to cons
David Corn
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Election Matters
The peeling-gilt Aladdin Theatre, in a working-class neighborhood across the river from downtown Portland, generally draws rock acts a little too funky or faded to fill the city’s main showcase
David Sarasohn
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Column
Thread of Abuse Runs to the Oval Office
Someone’s lying–big-time–and neither Congress nor the media have begun to scratch the surface.
Robert Scheer
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On the Selection (and De-Selection) of a Baathist General From the Republican Guard to Pacify the Populace, Using American Weapons, Or, Pick of the Week
By smashing evil-doers flat, we’ve said,
This war has changed Iraq forevermore.
So why is it that Kurds and Shiites start
Imagining they’ve seen this all before?Calvin Trillin
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Show & Tell in Abu Ghraib
What are the thousand words, I wonder, that are worth the pictures of grinning US soldiers sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison?
Katha Pollitt
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Is Koppel a Commie?
The Sinclair Broadcast Group, a Maryland-based media company whose holdings include sixty-two TV stations, did the country a favor when it refused to air the April 30 special edition of Nigh
Eric Alterman
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Books & the Arts
Stonewalling on Wilson
The publication of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s book, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity, affords a fresh opportunity to cons
David Corn
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All in the Family?
Despite decades of battering by divorce and the proliferation of single-parent households, the family remains a source of inexhaustible fascination.
Stanley Aronowitz
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Happy 30th Anniversary Discovery/The Nation
Blindness and Transparency
I can’t say. Is it better to close your eyes,
or to go unseen?Various Contributors
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Evidence of Things Not Seen
My father and most of my uncles fought in World War II. I grew up in the shadow of the war.
Chris Hedges
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Native Son
At the height of the Great Game, when adventure-crazed young men from Britain and Russia stealthily documented the wild miles and tribes of Central Asia, an American and an Englishman set up te
Leela Jacinto
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Broadcast News
Most faces can simply be described, but some (like Jean Dominique’s) need explaining. When did the lips shrink away, and the light brown skin start clinging to the bones?
Stuart Klawans
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Letters
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Letters
PROZAC NOTION
New York City
Alexander Cockburn, David Moberg, Our Readers and Frances FitzGerald