magazine November 25, 2002

Building a Citizen Politics

Remembering Paul Wellstone We mourn the passing of Sen. Paul Wellstone and his wife, Sheila. Americans have lost a… more

By Paul Wellstone   

Election Daze

The Help America Vote Act may do just the opposite

By John Nichols   

Home Care Hardship

SEIU lobbies for raises in Illinois

Justice in Guatemala

The historic conviction on October 3 of a former Guatemalan military officer, Col. Juan Valencia, for the 1990 murder… more

Thought Police

Big Brother may be watching what you read

Spirited Away

With a little help from a rotund forest spirit, a teen-age witch and the odd flying pig, Hayao Miyazaki… more

By Joe Knowles   

Let’s Make a Movie

The stout government minister, himself an actor in his youth for the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, stood before a gathering… more

Iran Behind the Screen

Women and cinema are controversial, problematic and significant topics in modern Iran, a nation that benefits from an unexpectedly… more

By Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa   

The Big Picture

So it looks like the movies made it. Made it through the “death of irony” we heard so much… more

By Joshua Rothkopf   

Under the Gun

Here in Fredericksburg, Virginia, amid the fear and anger over the sniper rampage, one topic has been largely overlooked: how to revise gun… more

Editorial

Bush Apologistas

In the past couple of months, as the Bush administration flogs its plans for war against Saddam Hussein, a flurry of commentators, most… more