JOURNAL

6/3/2002
capital | The 9/11 X-Files
by David Corn - A careful examination of the many alternative takes on Sept. 11 finds that their advocates imply far more than they prove.
(web only)

5/29/2002
article | Singing to Power
by Hillary Frey - Billy Bragg has to be the only popular musician who could score airtime with a song about the global justice movement.
(web only)

5/28/2002
beat | Dems on the Fast Track
by John Nichols - Grassroots Dems should remember how their party's potential presidential candidates voted when the Senate had the chance to derail Bush's Fast Track initiative.
(web only)

5/24/2002
editorial | Pass ENDA Now!
by Doug Ireland - Twenty-seven years after its introduction, the first comprehensive gay civil rights bill in the history of Congress is likely to come before the Senate this summer.
(web only)

5/23/2002
article | Rebel With a Cause
by Eyal Press - Through his new organization, former World Bank economist Joesph Stiglitz hopes to do nothing less than end the World Bank and IMF's monopoly on development policy.
(from the June 10, 2002 issue)

5/23/2002
FSP | Playing With Fire
by Matt Bivens - America's highest national security priority should be to keep Russia from becoming a terrorist's Home Depot.
(web only)

5/21/2002
article | Corporate Welfare at its Worst
by Rep. Bernie Sanders - One of the most egregious forms of corporate welfare can be found at an obscure federal agency called the Export-Import Bank.
(web only)

5/18/2002
article | The 'Talibanization' of Bangladesh
by Ruth Baldwin - While the international community looks the other way, religious fundamentalists are terrorizing the people of Bangladesh.
(web only)

5/17/2002
editorial | The New Politics of September 11
by John Nichols - Democrats can make life difficult for Bush if they resist the temptation to go for the jugular and instead go for the truth.
(web only)

5/16/2002
article | Allies for Abstinence
by Doug Ireland - At a UN special session on children, George W. Bush declared war against the condom as a weapon in the fight against AIDS.
(web only)

5/15/2002
capital | Fidel and Bioweapons
by David Corn - When the Bush Administration accuses Cuba of developing biological weapons, it should offer proof.
(web only)

5/14/2002
article | The Mullahs of Marriage
by Bill Berkowitz - Thanks to an effective campaign by right-wing foundations, conservative family politics has gone mainstream.
(web only)

5/10/2002
article | Missing--But Not Forgotten
by Nick Greenslade - Three decades later, Joyce Horman still hasn't discovered the truth about what happened to her husband in Chile.
(web only)

5/9/2002
editorial | Support for Refuseniks
by Neve Gordon - The refusenik community, and its Israeli support, has grown dramatically in the past months.
(web only)

5/8/2002
Beat | Cumulative Voting Works
by John Nichols - An obscure Texas law that then-Governor Bush signed in 1995 is transforming the electoral landscape in Texas for the better.
(web only)

5/3/2002
editorial | Afghan Victims Deserve Support
by Medea Benjamin & Jason Mark - This is a case where a small amount of money can go a long way toward helping thousands and enhancing our own security.
(web only)

5/3/2002
editorial | No-Risk Electioneering
by Andy McCord - Musharraf's referendum only exacerbated Pakistan's political crisis.
(web only)

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THIS WEEK IN PRINT

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Antinuclear Events
See this list of upcoming protests, seminars, rallies and exhibits dedicated to the complete abolition of nuclear weapons.

The Nation Cruise, 2002
This October, join Victor Navasky, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Katha Pollitt, Howard Zinn and many others on a seminar-laden fall foliage tour of New England and Canada.

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
Gore Vidal's commentary on the events of Sept. 11, 2001 was deemed unpublishable in the US. His Italian publisher issued this book a few months ago, and it became an instant #1 best-seller there as well as in Germany, Spain and Portugal. Now read it in English too!

A Just Response
Order this new collection of material from The Nation on terrorism, democracy and September 11. Edited by Katrina vanden Heuvel and introduced by Jonathan Schell.

DanielSinger.org
The Nation's late Europe correspondent kept a close watch on Jean-Marie Le Pen and the threat from the far right. Rediscover those historic essays and others.