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Making Money on Terror Making Money on Terror

Four months after September 11, Osama bin Laden is on the run and the Pentagon is riding high. Our warmaker in chief, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, has been described by t...

Jan 10, 2002 / William D. Hartung

What Price Stimulus? What Price Stimulus?

"Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes," George W. Bush cryptically proclaimed. The press dutifully translated what he really meant, but few commented on the tasteless...

Jan 10, 2002 / The Editors

South Asia at the Brink South Asia at the Brink

India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who gathered here with the leaders of the other five South Asian countries for a summit meeting ...

Jan 10, 2002 / Kanak Mani Dixit

More Bush Poor Picks More Bush Poor Picks

When Washington gets back to business, there will be squawking over presidential appointments. Before the Christmas recess, GOPers were charging Senate majority leader Tom Daschl...

Jan 10, 2002 / David Corn and Emily Weintraub

Forbidden Truth? Forbidden Truth?

Conspiracy is going mainstream. Paula Zahn of CNN went into wide-eyed mode as she parleyed with Richard Butler, former head of the UN inspection team in Iraq, latterly part of th...

Jan 10, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Judging the Wise Guys Judging the Wise Guys

It's that time of the decade again; time to ask the time-honored question, "Whither the Public Intellectual?" We did it in the 1980s when Russell Jacoby first published his still...

Jan 10, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

Not All, Only a Few Return Not All, Only a Few Return

(after Ghalib) Just a few return from dust, disguised as roses. What hopes the earth forever covers, what faces? I too could recall moonlit roofs, those nigh...

Jan 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Agha Shahid Ali

Let Down His Rich Pals? Over His Dead Body Let Down His Rich Pals? Over His Dead Body

Talk about the politics of class struggle. George W. Bush now is apparently willing to give his life to make the rich richer.

Jan 10, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Tattletales for an Open Society Tattletales for an Open Society

"Former Yankee virtues, common sense, scepticism if not suspicion of authority, a belief in the mastery of the future, have been driven underground.

Jan 10, 2002 / Various Contributors

Tattletales for an Open Society Tattletales for an Open Society

Read Senator Joe Lieberman's letter to ACTA. Read comments from other new members of Tattletales for an Open Society. Read Eric Scigliano's Naming-and un-naming-Names.

Jan 9, 2002 / Martin J. Sherwin

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