The Nation back issues from March 2003:
Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
Mar 03, 2003 ... WITH HEALTHCARE & JUSTICE FOR ALL Cleveland, Ohio * David Corn in "Healthcare for All--Now" [Jan. 6] succinctly lays out the paradox confronting universal healthcare advocates--a new opening for comprehensive reform alongside public distrust of big-government ...
Corrections.(Correction Notice)
Mar 03, 2003 ... * In Jennifer Baumgardner's "Roe in Rough Waters" [Feb. 10], the number of women who died annually from illegal abortions before passage of Roe v. Wade was not 10,000. Experts put the figure between 1,000 and 5,000 for the postwar period. In Eric Alterman's "USA Oui! ...
The case against the war. (Articles).(an open letter to the United States; includes article on the Urgent Call to End Nuclear Danger)
Mar 03, 2003; ... "All of us have heard this term `preventive war' since the earliest days of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it. In this day and time ... I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such ...
Mighty in pink: a clever new wave of feminist antiwar activism manages to avoid old cliches. (Articles).(Waging Peace)
Mar 03, 2003; ... This article is part of the Waging Peace series, covering the movement that is emerging across the United States to oppose war on Iraq.--The Editors "It's not easy to be warm and fashionable at the same time," smiled Nina Human of Atlanta, who, ensconced in a billowing pink ...
Letter from Iraq.(waiting on war)
Mar 03, 2003; ... Baghdad Iraq has become one bizarre series of contradictions. Construction of what the government boasts will be one of the world's largest mosques continues in Baghdad, as does work on a new presidential palace, described by one official as being "like our version of the White ...
The army's empire skeptics: officers are raising serious questions about manpower, morale and technology. (Articles).(United States)
Mar 03, 2003; ... Over the past year the American intelligentsia has expended no small amount of cerebral capital in an effort to articulate, if not delineate, visions of empire. Whatever form a Pax Americana might take, it will almost certainly require expanded use of the US military. Although there is ...
Letter to America.(on United States foreign policy)
Mar 03, 2003; ... In order to provide international perspective in the debate over US foreign policy, The Nation asked foreign intellectuals to share their reflections. This is the sixth in that series.--The Editors The tragedy of 9/11 inflicted on the American body politic a pain that will not ...
Who's in charge?(The Right Man: the Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush and Bush at War)(Book Review)
Mar 03, 2003; ... The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush. By David Frum. Random House. 303 pp. $25.95. Bush at War. By Bob Woodward. Simon & Schuster. 376 pp. $28. On October 4, 2001--less than a month after that horrific day--George W. Bush and the members of his ...
The `indivisible four'.(Park Avenue Cubists at Grey Art Gallery, New York)
Mar 03, 2003; ... THE PARK AVENUE CUBISTS The Grey Art Gallery, which occupies the former site of the Museum of Living Art in the main building of New York University on Washington Square, is celebrating its legendary predecessor with an exhibition of work by the so-called Park Avenue Cubists, ...
One step removed.(New York City Ballet Company)
Mar 03, 2003; ... NEW YORK CITY BALLET Those of us who have followed the New York City Ballet and the repertory of the world's greatest choreographer, George Balanchine, since the mid-1950s are filled with spine-tingling memories of great ballets performed by dancers whose technique was so solid ...
The great `intelligence' fraud.(United States)
Mar 03, 2003; ... Events do rush by us in a blur, I know, but let's not abandon Secretary of State Colin Powell's February 5 UN speech to the graveyard of history without one last backward glance. It was, after all, billed by the President as a conclusive intelligence briefing on exactly how Saddam Hussein ...
Code Orange.(state of The Nation)(Column)
Mar 03, 2003; ... The whole sad, messy world was on Code Orange alert on the day I left for England. I was on my way to present a lecture at Oxford University, part of a fundraiser for Amnesty International, and it was a very, very bad hair day. I was feeling unusually apprehensive because the lovely BBC ...
Venezuela's media coup.(oil interests vs. Hugo Chavez)
Mar 03, 2003; ... Poor Endy Chavez, outfielder for the Navegantes del Magallanes, one of Venezuela's big baseball teams. Every time he comes up to bat, the local TV sportscasters start in with the jokes. "Here comes Chavez. No, not the pro-Cuban dictator Chavez, the other Chavez." Or "This Chavez hits ...
Voices of the street.(United States on Iraq)(Editorial)
Mar 03, 2003 ... Even before the crucial February 14 meeting of the Security Council (after this issue went to press), a significant milestone was reached in the form of the proposal by France, Germany and Russia--later joined by China--to strengthen UN inspections in Iraq, and the opposition of France, ...
Republic or empire? (Comment).(United States)(Column)
Mar 03, 2003; ... As the senior American diplomat in Baghdad during Desert Shield, I advocated a muscular US response to Saddam's brutal annexation of Kuwait in flagrant violation of the United Nations charter. Only the credible threat of force could hope to reverse his invasion. Our in-your-face strategy ...
Filibustering on Estrada. (Comment).(judicial nominee Miguel Estrada, United States)
Mar 03, 2003; ... Few of George W. Bush's judicial nominees have generated as much opposition as has Miguel Estrada. The AFL-CIO, the NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the National Organization for Women, Planned Parenthood, the Sierra Club and the American Association of University Women ...
Back to segregation. (Comment).(education United States)
Mar 03, 2003; ... Sit in classrooms, eat in lunchrooms, romp on playgrounds and wander the hallways in randomly selected public schools in America: It's right here, in the nation's increasingly segregated and astonishingly unequal schools, where one finds the most convincing case for keeping affirmative ...
We speak not of Osama.(Poem)
Mar 03, 2003; ... <Pre> We Speak Not of Osama (With apologies to Cole Porter, the master, who wrote "My Heart Belongs to Daddy") The towers fell. We knew full wellThe villain in this awful drama.His name held sway, till he got away.Now we speak not of Osama. We said we'd ...
The supermax solution. (Comment).(Tamms Prison, Illinois litigation)
Mar 03, 2003; ... The billboard at the east entrance to the remote rural village of Tamms, Illinois, reads "Tamms: The First Super Max," and below, in lowercase letters, "a good place to live." Inmates at Tamms, who live in a kind of state-sanctioned suspended animation, would tend to disagree. Confined to ...
Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
Mar 10, 2003 ... `AMERICAN LYNCHING' BETRAYED Providence, RI * In Rebecca Segall and David Holmberg's review "Who Killed Emmett Till?" [Feb. 3] there are a number of errors, distortions, omissions by inference and untrue statements. I have never had contact with Segall. After ...
Correction.(Correction Notice)
Mar 10, 2003 ... * In Jonathan Schell's story last week, Britain and Italy were left out of ...
Lula's moment: Brazil's revolution of the possible. (Articles).(Luiz Inacio da Silva)
Mar 10, 2003; ... "We cannot have some eating five times a day while others go five days without eating," Brazil's newly installed president, Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, told an appreciative crowd here on January 24. But what would be boilerplate in another context, tossed out by one more off-the-shelf ...
Confronting empire. (Articles).(peace movement)(Excerpt)
Mar 10, 2003; ... Following is an excerpt from Arundhati Roy's talk at the closing rally of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on January 27. The full text will appear in her book War Talk, to be published in April by South End Press. --The Editors So how do we resist "Empire"? The ...
Optimism and antiwar fervor: a report from Porto Alegre: spirits were high at the Third World Social Forum in Brazil, even though workable proposals for a new global economic system remained elusive. (Articles).
Mar 10, 2003; ... At roughly the same hour on January 27 that Hans Blix was handing over his weapons inspection report to the United Nations, something like 15,000 people braved the stifling Southern Hemisphere summer heat here to pack the local Gigantinho indoor stadium to the rafters. Unfurling a sea of ...
Why international law matters: pre-emptive war flagrantly contradicts the UN's legal framework. (Articles).
Mar 10, 2003; ... There is little doubt that the White House seems resolved to wage war against Iraq, however weak its legal case, and despite the dramatic erosion of support even at home. It is probably late in the day to stop this militarist juggernaut, but it is not too late to try. There are several ...
What's a neoliberal to do?(World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability)(Book Review)
Mar 10, 2003; ... World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability. By Amy Chua. Doubleday. 256 pp. $26. In the 1960s it seemed as if the Third World was in flames, fueled by anti-imperialist struggles from Cuba to Vietnam, Bolivia to Algeria. For New ...
Poets against the war.(Poem)
Mar 10, 2003; ... Here The Nation presents a few of the works posted on "Poets Against the War," ...
Apartheid: The Musical.(Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony)(Spider)(Chi-Hwa-Seon: Painted Fire)(From the Other Side)(Movie Review)
Mar 10, 2003; ... AMANDLA! * SPIDER * CHI-HWA-SEON * FROM THE OTHER SIDE If you've never watched Nelson Mandela dance, then you should know that he does a ...
Not too late?(peace demonstrations)(Column)
Mar 10, 2003; ... The February 15 demonstration in New York was huge, exciting, exhilarating--despite the weather (brrrr) and the heavy hand of the NYPD (see below). It seemed like the whole city was there, and the suburbs too--all races, colors, creeds, sexes and genders, every age from stroller to ...
Bad news, film at 11.(dumbing-down of television news)
Mar 10, 2003; ... Like almost everything these days, local TV news is awful and getting worse. The FCC, under free-market ideologue Michael Powell, is preparing to relax ownership limits to allow further concentration of power and influence in the hands of just a few corporations. What's more, Powell says ...
The will of the world. (Comment).(anti-war demonstrations)
Mar 10, 2003; ... Jonathan Schell, who last week compellingly argued "The Case Against the War" in these pages, this week assesses the power and meaning of the global antiwar demonstrations.--The Editors February 15, 2003, the day 10 million or so people in hundreds of cities on every continent ...
Europe on the March. (Comment).(anti-war demonstrations)
Mar 10, 2003; ... So this is what it feels like to be in the political mainstream. As we turned into Piccadilly Circus on February 15, and the two lines of march, each larger than any demonstration in British history, converged into a gigantic human current flowing very, very slowly toward Hyde Park, a ...
Kucinich's antiwar bid. (Comment).(Dennis Kucinich)
Mar 10, 2003; ... Three days after he sued the President to force a Congressional vote on whether to attack Iraq, and one day after hundreds of thousands of antiwar demonstrators in New York cheered his call to turn the tide toward peace, Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Dennis Kucinich was addressing ...
Corporate bill for slavery. (Comment).(slave descendants class-action lawsuits)
Mar 10, 2003; ... On February 26 for the first time a judge will make substantive and procedural rulings on a probable eight lawsuits that are at the cutting edge of the movement to compensate African-Americans who still suffer from the effects of slavery and institutionalized racism. There are at least ...
On the backlash against the perfidious French.(Poem)
Mar 10, 2003; ... <Pre> ON THE BACKLASH AGAINST THE PERFIDIOUS FRENCH They're relegated to the side.This role--which they cannot abide,Which torments Frenchmen day and night--Can make them do things out of spite.But could it be the French are right? And, yes, it sometimes ...
Religion in the news. (Comment).
Mar 10, 2003; ... Graven Images At the behest of the religious right, local governments have erected tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments at courthouses and other public buildings. Next, taxpayers or the ACLU sues to remove the images, and a federal court invariably rules that they violate ...
Iraq endgame. (Editorials).(Editorial)
Mar 17, 2003 ... Brushing aside the world's largest antiwar demonstrations ever, the United States, Britain and Spain have introduced a new United Nations Security Council resolution that would in their view authorize the use of force against Iraq. The Bush Administration has thus chosen not only to defy ...
Buying a coalition. (Comment).
Mar 17, 2003; ... Just as his father did, George W. Bush is offering generous packages of aid and arms to nations that join his drive for war against Iraq. There is so much bargaining going on that arms analyst Ira Shorr has called the Administration's ad hoc alliance for war the "coalition of the wanting." ...
In bed with the Pentagon. (Comment).
Mar 17, 2003; ... It's a fascinating scheme, "this very ambitious and aggressive embed plan," as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Bryan Whitman calls it. But "embedding" journalists in selected military units is only part of the Pentagon's program for handling news organizations in ...
Patriot act's big brother. (Comment).(Domestic Security Enhancement Act )
Mar 17, 2003; ... In early February, the Center for Public Integrity disclosed a leaked draft of the Bush Administration's next round in the war on terrorism--the Domestic Security Enhancement Act (DSEA). The draft legislation, stamped Confidential and dated January 9, 2003, appears to be in final form but ...
Watching workers' money. (Comment).(mutual fund industry disclosure laws)
Mar 17, 2003; ... Though he did not get much credit for it, one of Harvey Pitt's last acts as SEC chairman was to hand a tremendous victory over the mutual-fund industry to the AFL-CIO. The SEC commissioners decreed that mutual funds must henceforth disclose how they cast their proxy votes on such ...
An analysis of the Turkish-American alliance, its diplomatic significance and its role in establishing democracy in the Middle East.(Brief Article)
Mar 17, 2003; ... Get allies? That's not hard to ...
Hacks and heroes.(Jeffrey Goldberg's articles criticized)
Mar 17, 2003; ... Who's the hack? I nominate The New Yorker's Jeffrey Goldberg. He's the new Remington, though without the artistic talent. Back in 1898, William Randolph Hearst was trying to fan war fever between the United States and Spain. He dispatched a reporter and the artist Frederic Remington to ...
Loose lips and other slips.(surveillance and civil rights)
Mar 17, 2003; ... It is good news that Total Information Awareness has been blocked, at least for the moment. The great computerized search engine that was to have scrutinized our every blip has been put on hold by Congress. That John Poindexter, convicted of lying to Congress, was to have headed the ...
The Crawford Conundrum.(Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics)(Book Review)
Mar 17, 2003; ... MADE IN TEXAS: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics. By Michael Lind. Basic. 224 pp. $24. Say what you will about Michael Lind, at least he's never predictable. That is, of course, unless your prediction is that he's once again trying to find a way to ...
Slumming Toward Academia.(The New H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop )(Book Review)
Mar 17, 2003; ... THE NEW H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop. By Todd Boyd. New York University. 169 pp. $22.95. Only the joy of capitalist expectation could move a pre-Reagan-born American to utter the line "civil rights is dead," let alone write a book devoted to that ...
Biodiversity and you.(SPARING NATURE: The Conflict Between Human Population Growth and Earth's Biodiversity)(TILTING AT MILLS: Green Dreams, Dirty Dealings, and the Corporate Squeeze)(Book Review)
Mar 17, 2003; ... SPARING NATURE: The Conflict Between Human Population Growth and Earth's Biodiversity. By Jeffrey K. McKee. Rutgers. 210 pp. $28. TILTING AT MILLS: Green Dreams, Dirty Dealings, and the Corporate Squeeze. By Lis Harris. Houghton Mifflin. 241 pp. $25. As the Earth's ...
Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
Mar 17, 2003 ... SUDDENLY THERE CAME A TAPPING ... New York City * As the executive producer of the current tour of Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk, I found Diane Rafferty's article on Savion Glover, "Tap Roots" [Jan. 13/20] offensive, inappropriate and filled with ...
How the other half still lives: in the shadow of wealth, New York's poor increase. (Articles).
Mar 17, 2003; ... In 1890 the great photojournalist Jacob Riis published his now classic book about immigrant tenement poverty in lower Manhattan, called How the Other Half Lives. During the past few months I have tried to retrace some of Riis's steps through modern New York's pain and deprivation. As New ...
A triangle of realpolitik: Iran, Iraq and the United States: Iran would be happy to see Saddam Hussein overthrown. But both regime officials and their opponents have reason to fear. What come afterward.
Mar 17, 2003; ... Since the 9/11 calamity, there have been two instances of cooperation between Iran and the United States, once during the assault on the Taliban and then in the course of preparation to attack Iraq. In both cases, a convergence of interests compelled Washington and Teheran to put their ...
Less than miraculous: Pennsylvania's mine rescue was inspiring, but the real story was corporate greed.
Mar 17, 2003; ... Pittsburgh Last summer the attention of the nation and the world was riveted by the rescue that brought nine Pennsylvania coal miners out of a mine in Somerset County. In a period of economic recession full of anxieties generated by the 9/11 attack, the gripping drama of the ...
Letters.
Mar 24, 2003 ... VENEZUELA'S CLASS WARFARE New York City * Although we commend Naomi Klein for writing about the struggle between the Venezuelan government and the private media, in her March 3 "Lookout" column, she misrepresented the position of the Committee to Protect Journalists ...
Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy. (Articles).(Excerpt)
Mar 24, 2003; ... <Pre>At the close of George W. Bush's news conference after the Republican sweepof Congress last month, a reporter asked what the president had given hiswife for their 25th anniversary, Nov. 5, which the couple celebrated at theWhite House. Mr. Bush, who was by then out of ...
Neo-macho man: pop culture and post-9/11 politics: even before the attacks, a backlash against feminism had brought the return of the authoritarian male. Now, macho is equated with keeping us safe.
Mar 24, 2003; ... Say what you will about oil and hegemony, but the pending invasion of Iraq is more than just a geopolitical act. It's also the manifestation of a cultural attitude. To understand how this war is being packaged and sold, you have to look at the fantasies Americans consume as they graze ...
Title IX: political football: women's sports are under attack by jocks who have an ally in the president.
Mar 24, 2003; ... Girls in ponytails and soccer jerseys packed the front of a room at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. They elbowed each other and giggled as kids from across the nation spoke lovingly of basketball, pole vaulting and field hockey, and in support of Title IX--the 1972 law that has ...
Storm warnings for a supply-side war.(The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq)(Book Review)
Mar 24, 2003; ... The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq. By Kenneth M. Pollack. Random House. 494 pp. $25.95. There's nothing like a compelling icon when no compelling argument is available. That is just how Kenneth Pollack's book, The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq, is ...
Court reporter.(Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism)(Book Review)
Mar 24, 2003; ... Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism. By John F. Stacks. Little, Brown. 372 pp. $29.95. On June 4, 1961, John F. Kennedy held his last meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. The scheduled sessions had gone badly, both men playing ...
Talkin' 'bout my generation.(Fifth of July)(Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)(Theater Review)
Mar 24, 2003; ... FIFth of July * Ma Rainey's Black Bottom The revival of a highly regarded play can either enhance or diminish its reputation. Consider the current productions of two very different works--by playwrights who share a surname--a couple of decades after their premieres. If Lanford ...
Dashboard confessional.(10)(Under the Skin of the City)(Movie Review)
Mar 24, 2003; ... 10 * Under the Skin of the City A few years ago, when moviegoers in this country were just beginning to learn about Abbas Kiarostami, I heard a crowd of New Yorkers berate him for having put a snatch of Vivaldi onto a soundtrack. These audience members had paid for an Iranian ...
Phallic balloons against the war.(Lysistrata Project, Code Pink)(female anti-war protests)
Mar 24, 2003; ... Who says there's nothing new under the sun? Monday, March 3, saw the emergence of a new kind of protest against war--the Lysistrata Project. Back in January, two clever and indefatigable New York actresses, Kathryn Blume and Sharron Bower, had the marvelous idea of staging readings of ...
`Rules for changing the world'.(political involvement of celebrities)(Roseanne Cash)(Interview)
Mar 24, 2003; ... This was intended to be a sweet little prewar column about an artist I admire, Rosanne Cash. Still sexy after all these years, she just released her first commercial CD in nearly a decade after having remarried, had a fourth kid, signed with a different record company and lost and regained ...
Dissent and disconnects. .(opposition to Iraq war)
Mar 24, 2003 ... History was made on February 27 when for the first time Big Labor formally broke with a sitting President's war policy. By unanimous vote, the executive council of the AFL-CIO, representing America's 13 million unionized workers, approved a resolution stating, "The president has not ...
Caldron in Northern Iraq. (Comment).(Iraqi Kurdistan)
Mar 24, 2003; ... Erbil, northern Iraq Northern, "free" Iraq looks more and more like Lebanon in the old days: venue of not one war but many. It should have been so simple. The US armed forces were to land in Turkey and base themselves in friendly Iraqi Kurdistan on their way south in Operation ...
Rising danger in Korea. (Comment).(relations with North and South Korea)
Mar 24, 2003; ... If the impending invasion of Iraq goes quickly and Saddam Hussein is overthrown, North Korea will soon enter American gun sights. For the past three months Pyongyang has sought to get Washington's attention with a series of provocative moves, but the Bush Administration has so far ...
Washington Post warriors. (Comment).(political reporting)
Mar 24, 2003; ... A generation ago, when I worked at the Washington Post, the right-wing fringe occasionally referred to us as "Pravda on the Potomac." We reporters were amused but also rankled. We did not see ourselves as a mouthpiece for the government (neither, it seems, did the government). Still, the ...