September 30, 2002 Issue

Feature

Curtain Call for the Puppet Show

Gwen Shaffer
Gujarat’s Gendered Violence

Ruth Baldwin
The Great Airport Fire-Off

Michael Flaherty
The Legacy of the Battle for Seattle

Tom Hayden
Letter to America

My hope: empathy, compassion, the capacity to imagine that you are not unique
Ariel Dorfman
The Right’s Moral Trouble

Thanks to corporate scandals, conservatives are finally on the defensive.
Fred Block
Fascism’s Firm Footprint in India

The Indian state is criminally culpable for the murder of Muslims in Gujarat.
Arundhati Roy
The Case Against War

A rebuttal to eight arguments put forward by proponents of an invasion of Iraq.
Stephen Zunes

Column

Building a Coalition, W.-Style

We’ll talk to Germany and France,
Brief Russians and Chinese,
Consult with Turkey and Japan,
Then do just as we please.

Calvin Trillin
Appointment in Samarra?

How would people be discussing the issue of "regime change" in Iraq if the question were not being forced upon them by the Administration?

Christopher Hitchens
Slut Patrol

In some parts of China, local officials keep track of women’s menstrual periods. We haven’t come to that, but anyone who thinks women’s reproductive and sexual privacy is secure in America wasn’t following the news this summer.
Katha Pollitt

Books & the Arts

Chile Reception

Stuart Klawans
Not So Pretty Horses, Too

Philip Connors
The Fourth Estate’s Estate

Robert W. Snyder
On Culturing a Union

Steve Early
Letter to America

My hope: empathy, compassion, the capacity to imagine that you are not unique
Ariel Dorfman
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