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September 3, 2001 Issue

In our special Labor Day issue, David Moberg reports on John Sweeney’s mixed record at the AFL-CIO; a forum of experts debates whether…

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Editorial

Let’s Get Organized

When The Red Queen boasts in Through the Looking-Glass that in her country, "it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place," she could have been ...

‘Nation’ Notes

We regret the loss of two valued contributors. Richard Cloward, for forty-seven years a professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work, was author of such influen...

More Democracy–Now!

In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Pacifica Radio executive director Bessie Wash said that the Pacifica management's goal "is to increase listenership." I...

CNN Rushes Rush*

I probably should listen to Rush Limbaugh, but I don't. The way I figure it, I did my time while researching my book Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot.

Column

We Are the World

At 5 o'clock in the morning, the radio alarm begins to blare the news. The United States is threatening to pull out of the World Conference Against Racism if the convers...

Hot Air Is Bad for Us

The current uproar over the posture of the Bush Administration on global warming and, most recently, on power-plant emissions vividly illustrates the political hypocrisy...

West Bank Dreamin’

Last night I had the strangest dream...

All of America's wealthy, conservative and safely belligerent pundits had been delivered by a just and beneficent Al...

Letters

Feature

Dark Ages Ahead at the NLRB

Most Americans are probably unaware that "the Dark Ages were not all bad and the Enlightenment not all good." Or that "homosexuality [is] a sin worthy of death." Or that one...

The Cosatu Strike

Nothing in modern times has symbolized the scourge of racism--and the potential for overcoming it--more than South Africa's recent history.

Books & the Arts

Chekhov Takes Wing

"Stop all printing of my play. I shall never write another one again." So wrote the frustrated young Dr. Chekhov to his publisher the morning after his new play, The Seagu...

Catchers in the Wry

Ah, the films of summer. When they get it right, they win our hearts. A sublime treat with which to beat the heat, Ghost World deserves every bit of the praise that ha...

Vagina Monologue

In his essay for the catalogue that accompanies "Picasso Érotique," beautifully installed in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until September 16, Jean-Jacques Lebel re...

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