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Feature
Russia’s Environmental Crisis
NPR’s Living On Earth program broadcast a radio version of this story over the weekend of September 1-3, 2000. Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute.
Mark Hertsgaard
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Editorial
Selma Is Still Selma
Selma, Alabama, a touchstone in the civil rights movement, is frozen in a way that confounds onlookers.
Amy Bach
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Column
Trulock Is Source of Botched Lee Case
In a bad spy flick, there’s got to be a character like Notra Trulock, an obsessed sleuth who always gets his man–even if it’s the wrong man.
Robert Scheer
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Freedom From Religion, ¡Si!
“The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion,” Senator Joseph Lieberman told a rapturous audience at a black church a few Sundays ago, just after being chosen as
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
Iraq: What the Butler Saw
At the beginning of September, Hans Blix, head of UNMOVIC, the latest UN commission for verifying Iraqi disarmament, poised to report his new team’s readiness to go into Iraq.
Ian Williams
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In the American Grain
After his death in 1975 at the age of 70, Lionel Trilling underwent something of an eclipse.
Ilan Stavans
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Rock in a Hard Place
Blessed with a pitch-perfect name for his métier, Lester Bangs wrote on the subject of rock music–writing, for him, being a matter of slamming two nouns together so their heads rang, an
Stuart Klawans
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Letters
The Discreet Charm of Hoffa Jr.
Marc Cooper’s July 24/31 “Where’s Hoffa Driving the Teamsters?” provoked a storm of controversy from Honolulu to Brooklyn.
Marc Cooper and Our Readers