What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Pick: THE AMERICAN SOUL: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders.
Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
American Dreams, Lost and Found American Dreams, Lost and Found
In this excerpt from his 2002 book, Studs Terkel recalls an encounter with Dennis Kucinich, "the boy-mayor of Cleveland," and follows his political odyssey.
Apr 18, 2002 / Feature / Studs Terkel
A Survey Offering Democrats Two Responses to the Return of Al Gore A Survey Offering Democrats Two Responses to the Return of Al Gore
Al Gore is back:
(1) Alas
(2) Alack
Apr 18, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Ghost Buster Ghost Buster
To immerse oneself in Robert Caro's heroic biographies is to come face to face with a shocking but unavoidable realization: Much of what we think we know about money, power and p...
Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Progressive Blooms Progressive Blooms
As Molly Ivins put it in a recent column: "Across the length and breadth of this land of ours, from the mountain to the prairie, from every hill and dale comes the question, 'Wher...
Apr 18, 2002 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Letters Letters
Judith Butler's April 1 "Guantánamo Limbo" intelligently discusses the failure of the Geneva Conventions to take account of "prisoners of the new war" an...
Apr 18, 2002 / Judith Butler and Our Readers
Is Smuggling a Patriotic Act? Is Smuggling a Patriotic Act?
On the one-month anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tobacco industry took aim at Congress's first effort to respond to the crisis with a major piece of new leg...
Apr 18, 2002 / Mark Schapiro
Campaign Finance: The Sequel Campaign Finance: The Sequel
With McCain-Feingold finally passed, it's time to focus again on public funding.
Apr 11, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols
Four Rms, Rent Slashed, Sad Vu Four Rms, Rent Slashed, Sad Vu
Having a hard time finding a new apartment to fit your budget? Consider a move to the blocks around Ground Zero. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the body set up by f...
Apr 11, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Social Security Fixes Social Security Fixes
Now that the recommendations of George W. Bush's Social Security task force have been quietly shelved, it's time to recall that there are simple and equitable solutions available ...
Apr 11, 2002 / Paul Simon