Salter’s Flight Path Salter’s Flight Path
We have many male authors known for loving women, fewer known for loving men. Love that is not overtly homoerotic--resolutely heterosexual, in fact--can take on an intimacy and pu...
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Eric Weinberger
SDS’s Other Wars SDS’s Other Wars
With over 100,000 members in college and university chapters, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was the largest and most significant of the 1960s New Left organizations in ...
Feb 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Jim Russell
The Pro-choice PR Problem The Pro-choice PR Problem
Young women, who've never lacked abortion rights, are tough to mobilize.
Feb 15, 2001 / Feature / Jennifer Baumgardner
Dancing With Wolves Dancing With Wolves
The Bush Administration is relying on falsehoods when making its case for opening up Alaska to drilling.
Feb 8, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Path of Least Resistance? Path of Least Resistance?
"Yes, nonviolence is a noble ideal, but do you really think it would stop a Hitler?" Or a street thug, a dictator, a death squad? Pacifists are long accustomed to these...
Feb 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Colman McCarthy
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
Economists vs. Students Economists vs. Students
For more than two years, the antisweatshop movement has been the hottest political thing on campus [see Featherstone, "The New Student Movement," May 15, 2000]. Students have use...
Jan 26, 2001 / Doug Henwood and Liza Featherstone
Bush’s True Colors Bush’s True Colors
Throughout the last campaign, while liberal Democrats warned that Bush was much more reactionary than he pretended to be, Naderites argued that Democrats were much less progressi...
Jan 26, 2001 / The Editors
The Crackdown on Dissent The Crackdown on Dissent
Police are up to old tricks: disrupting and spying on legal political activities.
Jan 18, 2001 / Feature / Abby Scher
Unions Without Borders Unions Without Borders
A new kind of internationalism is challenging neoliberal globalism.
Jan 5, 2001 / Feature / David Bacon