Just Asking… Just Asking…
Shortly after September 11, Dan Rather--or "El Diablo" as he is known to conservatives--appeared on Letterman and announced, "George Bush is the President, he makes the decisio...
Sep 19, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
Web Journalism’s Sticky Pages Web Journalism’s Sticky Pages
Legendary New York Times obit writer Alden Whitman once observed, "Death, the cliché assures us, is the great leveler; but it obviously levels some a great deal more tha...
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Tatiana Siegel
Keeping the Faith Keeping the Faith
That the abused child will defend its parent is no arcane phenomenon of child psychology--hell, we've seen it on Law and Order.
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson
Buffoonery of the Mundane Buffoonery of the Mundane
"Felisberto Hernández is a writer like no other," Italo Calvino announced once, "like no European, nor any Latin American.
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans
High Noon: The Rewrite High Noon: The Rewrite
On September 17, PBS aired Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents. On the surface, this documentary is a posthumous homage to a worthy blacklisted screenwriter.
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ed Rampell
Perception of Doors Perception of Doors
Tom Waits and others cheer The Doors' drummer, John Densmore, for not selling out to the corporations.
Sep 19, 2002 / Our Readers
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
THE WHITE APPLES.
By Jonathan Carroll.
Oxford. 384 pp pp. $$24.95.
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley
De-Saddamization, Not Disarmament De-Saddamization, Not Disarmament
"No sensible person wants to go to war if war can be avoided." So said Secretary of State Colin Powell on September 15. Next time he is at the White House,...
Sep 18, 2002 / David Corn
Curtain Call for the Puppet Show Curtain Call for the Puppet Show
On August 1, 2000, Philadelphia police rounded up seventy-five activists inside a West Philadelphia warehouse. It was the second day of the Republican National Convention, and th...
Sep 17, 2002 / Feature / Gwen Shaffer
US Rep. Rahall Speaks in Iraq US Rep. Rahall Speaks in Iraq
US Rep. Nick Rahall's policy pronouncements tend toward announcements about extending water and sewer service in southern West Virginia, or the erection of safety barriers on dang...
Sep 17, 2002 / John Nichols