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February 25, 2002 Issue

Russ Baker shows that secrecy is the guiding philosophy of the Bush Administration, John Nichols talks to Ralph Nader, and Katherine Rosman…

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Editorial

POWs in Legal Limbo

It's safe to assume that the 150 or so Al Qaeda and Taliban militiamen now occupying those 6-by-8-foot cages in Guantánamo Bay are not sympathetic characters. It's also...

Enron Values

There are no blue dresses to analyze in this one, or interns in berets to quiz. But make no mistake. The Enron scandal is the real thing--a window on the nexus of money and po...

Why the Right Loves Bush

It was the start of another Conservative Political Action Conference--the annual gathering of several thousand activists--and Republican Party chairman Marc Racicot, in unexci...

Column

Bad Hair Day

We have reached the point that the idea of liberty, an idea relatively recent and new, is already in the process of fading from our consciences and our standa...

Axis Me No Questions…

George W. Bush's State of the Union address has laid bare his Administration's political strategy. It is to manipulate the grief, anger and patriotism inspired by September 11...

Letters

Feature

A Fair Vote in San Francisco

On March 5 San Franciscans will have the opportunity to vote for an electoral system that elected "Red Ken" Livingstone as London's Mayor and Mary Robinson as Ireland's Pres...

Many Oppose Trade Deal

Pôrto Alegre, Brazil--In US living rooms, talk about such policy measures as the White House's proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is likely to elicit cluele...

Books & the Arts

Society of the Spectacle

The slogans scrawled across the walls of Paris in May 1968 suggest possibilities most of us have forgotten or that were long ago deemed preposterous. "Never work!" said one sl...

Hoisting the Black Flag

As the World Economic Forum met in New York City recently, the American media were much more concerned with what protesters were doing in the streets than with what they were ...

Our Collective Bargain

The fortunes of American unions have taken a turn for the worse. Thanks to terrorism and recession, union members are reeling from a series of economic and political setbacks....

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