The Beat The Beat
SENATE SHUFFLE It was a remarkably different Senate that convened following Vermonter Jim Jeffords's switch from Republican to Independent status. The Jeffords jump did more than ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Column / John Nichols
Stopping at a Red Light Stopping at a Red Light
Nancy Chan is a postfeminist icon of sorts. The ultimate lady entrepreneur, Chan--the title character of the popular serial Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, catalogued ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Leah Platt
The Ground Beneath My Feet The Ground Beneath My Feet
In the summer of 1986 I was traveling in Nicaragua, working on the book of reportage that was published six months later as The Jaguar Smile. It was the seventh anniversary of th...
Jun 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Salman Rushdie
A Former Fraternity President Deals With the Nuclear Proliferation Issue A Former Fraternity President Deals With the Nuclear Proliferation Issue
Though Bush intends to drop the missile treaty, He's happy that this Putin guy's so neat, he Will prove to be the nicest sort of Roosky. So just relax, and crack yourself a br...
Jun 21, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Letters Letters
'YO MAMA' IS A BIGOT New York City Arthur C. Danto contends that Renee Cox's Yo Mama's Last Supper is not anti-Catholic and deserves First Amendment protec...
Jun 21, 2001 / Eric Alterman, Arthur C. Danto, Maria Margaronis, and Our Readers
Yale Bites Unions Yale Bites Unions
For God, country and the ruling class.
Jun 14, 2001 / Feature / Kim Phillips-Fein
Post-Jeffords Slippery Slope in the Senate Post-Jeffords Slippery Slope in the Senate
If Georgia's Miller did decide
He's really on the other side,
The Democrats might then connive
To make Strom prove he's still alive.
Jun 14, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Elliott Abrams: It’s Back! Elliott Abrams: It’s Back!
"How would you feel if your wife and children were brutally raped before being hacked to death by soldiers during a military massacre of 800 civilians, and then two governments tr...
Jun 14, 2001 / David Corn
Renaissance Men, by the Letter Renaissance Men, by the Letter
"I want to know everything, everything...and I'm going to. I want to visit the theatre and the opera and the art galleries. I want to meet people. I want to learn...." The words a...
Jun 14, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Gardner