What’s Wrong With This Picture? What’s Wrong With This Picture?
The rise of the media cartel has been a long time coming. The cultural effects are not new in kind, but the problem has become considerably larger.
Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Mark Crispin Miller
Posting Ideas Posting Ideas
To keep the press free, Ben Franklin made sure that periodicals once got preferential treatment from the USPS. It's time to revisit that idea again.
Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Victor Navasky
Take This Media…Please! Take This Media…Please!
Cultural critics and producers sound off on Big Media.
Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Various Contributors
Ms. Heads West Ms. Heads West
What's next for Ms. magazine now that it's hit the ripe age of 30 and is now heading west?
Dec 20, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Lauren Sandler
Letter From Ground Zero: December 20, 2001 Letter From Ground Zero: December 20, 2001
As the Taliban retreat in Afghanistan, the Bush administration has ample opportunity to expand its far-reaching ‘war on terror.’
Dec 20, 2001 / Jonathan Schell
Trafficking in Verse Trafficking in Verse
Immigrants and traffickers are the subjects of a certain style of Mexican music.
Dec 20, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans
Dissent Dissent
Now Ashcroft says his critics aid An enemy whose plans are laid To turn our torch of liberty quite dim. So we should say, "Do what you please, Forget the usual guarantees"-- Unless, of course, the enemy is Him.
Dec 20, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Begging to Disagree Begging to Disagree
In these heated times, what does the word 'fundamentalist' mean? Well, it all depends on whom you ask.
Dec 20, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Your Favorite Media Sources Your Favorite Media Sources
Readers write in to share their favorite alternative media outlets.
Dec 20, 2001 / Our Readers
The Not-So-Pristine Wilderness The Not-So-Pristine Wilderness
The Department of Energy has hit upon a new idea for nuclear waste clean-up: just leave it there and declare the area a wildlife preserve. The animals won't complain.
Dec 20, 2001 / Matt Bivens