No Olive Branch No Olive Branch
How many times did we hear during the endless campaign that Bush wouldn't go after abortion if elected? Republicans, Naderites and countless know-it-alls and pundits in between a...
Feb 1, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
A Prince Among Men A Prince Among Men
REDISCOVERING HAMLET When, halfway through Hamlet, the prince proclaims that the purpose of playing is "to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature," the players listen. As ...
Feb 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carol Rocamora
The Osservanza Master The Osservanza Master
In later paintings-- a Brueghel, a Dali-- a hill could also be a breast grazed by clouds, the breast of a woman lying on her back facing heaven. But in this pa...
Feb 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Yerra Sugarman
Lessons Drawn From the Marc Rich Pardon Lessons Drawn From the Marc Rich Pardon
As proven by this pardon,
Two facts of life prevail:
The rich have got the money
And everything's for sale.
Feb 1, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Waiting for Sharon Waiting for Sharon
Among Palestinians in the occupied territories, the prospect that Ariel Sharon will be Israel's next prime minister is met with a shrug of the shoulders. The indifference is not ...
Feb 1, 2001 / Graham Usher
Winning Politics Winning Politics
The elections of 2000--resulting in the election of George W. Bush to the presidency, a historic 50-50 split in the Senate and a reduced Republican margin in the House--have supp...
Feb 1, 2001 / Paul Wellstone
Freedom From Religion Freedom From Religion
What's at stake in faith-based politics
Feb 1, 2001 / Feature / Ellen Willis
Letters Letters
THE TIANANMEN PAPERS New York City Edward Jay Epstein in "The 'Tiananmen Papers'" [Feb. 5] retails a story about 15,000 pages of secret Chinese documents b...
Feb 1, 2001 / Our Readers
The Great Florida Recount The Great Florida Recount
The great Florida recount is under way.
Jan 31, 2001 / Feature / David Corn
Which Way W.? Which Way W.?
As the proverbial curtain rises on the Bush era in national politics, it's hard to know just how pessimistic progressives should be about the new President's aims and intentions....
Jan 26, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman