Corporate Welfare Spoils Corporate Welfare Spoils
In one of the most foolish and cruelly ironic urban public policy decisions in recent memory, New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani are planning...
Apr 19, 2001 / Ralph Nader
The Beat The Beat
THE RIGHT 'CHOICE' In the first statewide race since the presidential election, Wisconsin voters gave George W. Bush's education program a failing grade. They overwhelmingly reject...
Apr 19, 2001 / Column / John Nichols
Retro Retro
The corporate types are firmly in control. The Russians, it appears, have sent a mole To steal our secrets. And the Chinese wait For tension to develop in their Strait. It's ...
Apr 19, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Bush Vs. Green Bush Vs. Green
Barbara Kingsolver, renowned author of The Poisonwood Bible and Prodigal Summer, wrote this call-to-action against the profound threats the new administration poses to
Apr 15, 2001 / Barbara Kingsolver
Letters Letters
'FALSE AND DISTORTED' New York City Christopher Hitchens's diatribe on Professor Elie Wiesel's essay on Jerusalem in the New York Times is a false and distor...
Apr 12, 2001 / Our Readers
In Fact… In Fact…
VILLARAIGOSA IN LA Labor Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa's raucous victory party at Union Station on April 10 was rife with the symbolism of a Los Angeles undergoing radical change...
Apr 12, 2001 / The Editors
Chasing the Chador Chasing the Chador
Pauline Kael (that scamp) once called the Italian neorealist classic The Earth Trembles "the best boring movie ever made." Today the earth is inundated with Iranian neo-neorealism...
Apr 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo
Uptown Girl Uptown Girl
"These pieces are not confessions," Meghan Daum declares in the foreword to My Misspent Youth, an anthology of articles she wrote for The New Yorker, Harper's and other magazines....
Apr 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain
Voters Rising Voters Rising
As John Lantigua recounts on page 11, the Florida election travesty looks even seamier in retrospect than it did at the time. Worse yet, as secretaries of state from across the co...
Apr 12, 2001 / The Editors
How the GOP Gamed the System in Florida How the GOP Gamed the System in Florida
As thousands of blacks registered, the state threw many others off the rolls.
Apr 12, 2001 / Feature / John Lantigua