The Humanitarian Temptation The Humanitarian Temptation
In 2000, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan posed a question to the Millennium Summit of the UN: "If humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on s...
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
My Guitar Gently Weeps My Guitar Gently Weeps
"I was in a highly unshaved and tatty state," John Lennon said of his 1966 meeting with a certain conceptual artist, then mounting her first show at London's Indica Gallery.
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Alex Abramovich
Intelligentsia at Play Intelligentsia at Play
Tom Stoppard's 'Coast of Utopia'
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carol Rocamora
Almodóvar’s World Almodóvar’s World
November has been melodrama month at the movies. First Todd Haynes brought us Far From Heaven, which he ought to have called Imitation of Imitation.
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Report From Gujarat Report From Gujarat
Abida Bano sits on the floor of a crowded makeshift relief building in Ahmedebad, the largest city in Gujarat, holding her 10-month-old daughter.
Nov 21, 2002 / Feature / Miranda Kennedy
Pelosi’s First Dive Pelosi’s First Dive
It didn't take long.
That is, for Nancy Pelosi, the new Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, to run for cover. Days after her colleagu...
Nov 20, 2002 / David Corn
Shmeer the Kids In Shmeer the Kids In
(An Upper East Side Sea Chanty
Sung to the tune of 'Blow the Man Down')
Nov 20, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
A Silver Spoon Is Gouging Unions A Silver Spoon Is Gouging Unions
President Bush, a scion of great wealth who has never had to earn an honest living, has abruptly wiped out the jobs, retirement security and health benefits of 850,000 blue- ...
Nov 19, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Gore Switches Gears on Health-Care Gore Switches Gears on Health-Care
When the Clinton-Gore administration attempted to reform the nation's approach to financing health care in 1993 and 1994, the one proposal that administration aides always rejecte...
Nov 15, 2002 / John Nichols