Landless, Jobless, But Not Hopeless Landless, Jobless, But Not Hopeless
The day after the World Social Forum dialogues, I visited an encampment of landless people squatting in garbage-wrap tents alongside the road an hour from Porto Alegre.
Feb 9, 2003 / Feature / Tom Hayden
We Speak Not of Osama We Speak Not of Osama
(With apologies to Cole Porter, the master, who wrote "My Heart Belongs to Daddy")
Feb 6, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Powell Fails to Make Case Powell Fails to Make Case
The good soldier’s message at the UN is likely to carry enormous weight in shaping public opinion. But he did not make a compelling case.
Feb 6, 2003 / Editorial / Katrina vanden Heuvel
In Dubya’s Battle In Dubya’s Battle
Although the Bush Administration acts as if the war train has already left the station, the antiwar forces continue to grow, and they are mobilizing in large numbers for a worl...
Feb 6, 2003 / Editorial / The Editors
Resist War and Empire Resist War and Empire
With up to 200,000 American and British combat troops already stationed in or on their way to the Persian Gulf area, war with Iraq looks increasingly imminent.
Feb 6, 2003 / Editorial / Michael T. Klare
Poetry Makes Nothing Happen? Ask Laura Bush Poetry Makes Nothing Happen? Ask Laura Bush
So Laura Bush will not, after all, be discussing the works of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes with a selected group of American poets at the White House on Fe...
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
Letter From London Letter From London
Europeans opposed to war in Iraq are united by a deep distrust, even fear, of America.
Feb 6, 2003 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan
A ‘Good Man’ Is Not So Hard to Find A ‘Good Man’ Is Not So Hard to Find
I was standing in line for Bowling for Columbine in Brussels not long ago with two writer/editor friends, when a 15-or-so-year-old Belgian boy in front of us turned around and ...
Feb 6, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman
Genet’s Palestinian Revolution Genet’s Palestinian Revolution
This essay will appear as an introduction in New York Review Books' new edition of Prisoner of Love (February 2003).
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ahdaf Soueif
Only by Swallowing Big Lies Can Powell Justify a War Only by Swallowing Big Lies Can Powell Justify a War
We know in advance that Colin Powell's performance will be flawless.
Feb 5, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer