Who’s Utopian Now? Who’s Utopian Now?
Welfare reform has left America dangerously undefended against hard times.
Jan 17, 2002 / Feature / Frances Fox Piven and Barbara Ehrenreich
Harvard Raps West Harvard Raps West
As the chairman of Artemis Records, the company that released Cornel West's CD, Sketches of My Culture, I considered criticizing Cornel for his association with Lawrence Summers,...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Danny Goldberg
Letters Letters
JURY DUTY--I New York City A Trial by Jury, both the book and Carl T. Bogus's review ["A Verdict on the System," Dec. 10, 2001], were interesting and insig...
Jan 17, 2002 / Michael Massing, Wallace Shawn, and Our Readers
For Her Own Good For Her Own Good
With the "family cap," the state says to welfare moms: no more babies!
Jan 17, 2002 / Feature / Karen Houppert
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
"Court rise!" begins D.D. Guttenplan's courtroom thriller The Holocaust on Trial. "With the clerk's shout we stop talking and struggle to our feet. David Irving v. Penguin Books ...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
$hotgun Weddings $hotgun Weddings
What would the government have to do to convince you to get married when you otherwise wouldn't? More than pay you $80 a month, I'll bet, the amount Wisconsin's much-ballyhooed "...
Jan 17, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Vienna: Waltz or Go-Go? Vienna: Waltz or Go-Go?
Exile is the best school of dialectics. --Bertolt Brecht Peter Gay emigrated from Germany when he was a teenager and work...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
All Together Now… All Together Now…
It was not without warning that Congress voted to end welfare-as-we-knew-it in 1996, but still, it seemed to catch the progressive community off-guard.
Jan 17, 2002 / The Editors
Enron Conservatives Enron Conservatives
Concerned about potential taint from the metastasizing Enron scandal, George W. Bush met with reporters recently to distance himself from Enron's chairman, Ken Lay (nicknamed "Ke...
Jan 17, 2002 / Robert L. Borosage