March for Peace on February 15 March for Peace on February 15
This Saturday should see the largest US and international protests yet against the Bush Administration's plans to invade Iraq. Major actions are planned nationwide and abroad in m...
Feb 16, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
‘The Whole World Is Against This War’ ‘The Whole World Is Against This War’
"The whole world is against this war. Only one person wants it," declared South African teenager Bilqees Gamieldien as she joined a Cape Town antiwar demonstration on a weekend wh...
Feb 14, 2003 / John Nichols
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Though there have been scattered signs of renewed interest in Dwight Macdonald--a biography in 1994, a collection of letters in 2002--all but a fraction of his own writing mold...
Feb 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Shainin
Against the Israeli Academic Boycott Against the Israeli Academic Boycott
"Among the Judenrat wannabes is your old friend and mine, Neve Gordon," wrote a Haifa University professor in one of his articles.
Feb 14, 2003 / Feature / Neve Gordon
Bush’s Presidential Malpractice Bush’s Presidential Malpractice
If a doctor handed you a strong medication--saying you had no choice but to swallow it--but didn't talk to you about the host of new ailments and problems t...
Feb 14, 2003 / David Corn
Voices of the Street Voices of the Street
Even before the crucial February 14 meeting of the Security Council (after this issue went to press), a significant milestone was reached in the form of the proposal by France,...
Feb 13, 2003 / The Editors
Filibustering on Estrada Filibustering on Estrada
Few of George W. Bush's judicial nominees have generated as much opposition as has Miguel Estrada.
Feb 13, 2003 / John Nichols
Republic or Empire? Republic or Empire?
As the senior American diplomat in Baghdad during Desert Shield, I advocated a muscular US response to Saddam's brutal annexation of Kuwait in flagrant violation of the United ...
Feb 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Joseph Wilson
Back to Segregation Back to Segregation
Sit in classrooms, eat in lunchrooms, romp on playgrounds and wander the hallways in randomly selected public schools in America: It's right here, in the nation's increasingly ...
Feb 13, 2003 / Gary Orfield and Susan Eaton
The Supermax Solution The Supermax Solution
The billboard at the east entrance to the remote rural village of Tamms, Illinois, reads "Tamms: The First Super Max," and below, in lowercase letters, "a good place to live." ...
Feb 13, 2003 / Regan Good