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Jackal Time
Robert L. Borosage: Will the Supreme Court declare banks immune from liability for their role in the Enron debacle?
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Enron Rules Still Apply
True reform in the wake of the Enron scandal means tightening the standards of corporate law so that executives who abuse their power are held accountable for their crimes.
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Kenny Boy's Connections
Robert Scheer: Despite the President's denials, connections between Enron's corporate criminals and the Bush family inner circle are are deeply embedded in the policies of two Administrations.
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Enron's Enablers
Robert Scheer: As the Enron trial unfolds, it's depressing that Phil and Wendy Gramm, the company's political enablers, are going unpunished and uncriticized.
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Ken Lay, Enron and the US Public
William Greider: Lay's belated indictment reminds one of the limp response of Washington politics.
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A New Horizon for the Democratic Party
Rep. Dennis Kucinich: The Democratic Party must become the party of reregulation, of public control, of public accountability and of public power.
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Enron Metastasizes
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Two Views of Hurricane Gustav and the Republicans
Calvin Trillin: The GOP's prayers are answered.
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The Rime of the Ancient Candidate
Calvin Trillin: A home in every port.
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Management Styles
Calvin Trillin: A different kind of identity politics.
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What the McCain Campaign Seems To Be Saying About Obama's Recently Concluded Trip Abroad
Calvin Trillin: It's a race to the bottom of world opinion.
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Phil Gramm Says We're a Nation of Whiners
Calvin Trillin: And who do you think caused the pain?
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Top McCain Aide Says That Another Terrorist Attack on the US Would Be to McCain's Advantage in the Election
Calvin Trillin: What a way to energize your base.
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A Smear-cheer for Michelle Obama
Calvin Trillin: Swiftboating with faint praise.
They don't know you, much less your kvetchy wife.
Yes, it's sad when pols that you've been shmeering
Now hope that you'll get twenty years to life.
They sang your song: They passed deregulation.
They passed your laws. They bent the regs your way.
But now they track your every obfuscation.
Old Kenny Boy, their Kenny Boy's now Mr. Lay.
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