In Cold Type In Cold Type
Some magazines have an identity problem, and some don't. The New York Review of Books doesn't, as you may have noticed. It's relentlessly highbrow, which is how we like it. For t...
Feb 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
Better Safe…? Better Safe…?
In my last column, I called the expansion of profiling that has occurred since September 11 "equal opportunity." I meant it ironically, but a surprising number of people took me ...
Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Letters Letters
BRIDEFARE OF FRANKENSTEIN Minneapolis Katha Pollitt ["$hotgun Weddings," Feb. 4] makes many very excellent points about the horrors of "bridefare," but she...
Feb 21, 2002 / Our Readers
Unhappy Anniversary Unhappy Anniversary
The McLaughlin Group is about to "celebrate" its twentieth anniversary. We might as well "celebrate" the discovery of anthrax. The show flatters itself--and its corporate ...
Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Homeland Security Initiative The Homeland Security Initiative
Barbara Coe is not your typical sixty-something silver-haired-senior-in-polyester.
Feb 21, 2002 / Feature / Bill Berkowitz
Protesting Black Hawk Down Protesting Black Hawk Down
It's one thing to have Somali groups protesting Black Hawk Down for what they say is an inaccurate and racist portrayal of Somalis.
Feb 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Adrian Brune
Bush’s War in Afghanistan: A Case of Big Mission Creep? Bush’s War in Afghanistan: A Case of Big Mission Creep?
Did the United States recently engage in an illegal act of war?
On February 19, "The New York Times" placed on its front page a story headlined, "In...
Feb 20, 2002 / David Corn
Making Money, the Bush Way Making Money, the Bush Way
You have to hand it to George Bush the senior for hustle. Back in 1998, he took at least $80,000 in stock from Global Crossing in return for speaking for the company in Tokyo.
Feb 19, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
From Muckraker to Mayor From Muckraker to Mayor
As a take-no-prisoners political columnist for an alternative newspaper in Dallas, Laura Miller made mayors miserable. She declared city officials "brain dead" and portrayed them ...
Feb 18, 2002 / John Nichols
Reflections on ‘Containment’ Reflections on ‘Containment’
Bush will have trouble in the long run selling the "axis of evil" and other myths.
Feb 14, 2002 / Feature / Bruce Cumings