Long Live the Estate Tax! Long Live the Estate Tax!
There is a stunning disconnect between the terrible budget shortfalls facing states and localities and the priorities of federal tax-cutters. States face budget deficits of mor...
Jan 9, 2003 / Bill Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins
The Right Drug Rx The Right Drug Rx
With a doctor in charge of the Senate, compassionate conservatism is well positioned to run roughshod over the issue that traditionally worked well for Democrats--healthcare.
Jan 9, 2003 / Merrill Goozner
Tax the Plutocrats! Tax the Plutocrats!
Money is needed for social programs. And the rich have more than their share.
Jan 9, 2003 / Feature / Gar Alperovitz
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
I first read Samuel Delany's Tales of Nevèrÿon during the high-geek days of junior high.
Jan 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim
The Question of North Korea The Question of North Korea
Korea has the bomb, but not to worry.
It's not a crisis. No, we needn't hurry
To get inspections back. Why try to spot
The weapons they already say they've got?
Jan 8, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
No Room for Logic in Bush Foreign Policy No Room for Logic in Bush Foreign Policy
Darn, but those weapons of mass destruction keep turning up in the wrong places.
Jan 2, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
On Not Running For the Presidency On Not Running For the Presidency
We now feel warm toward Albert Gore,
Who will not run in aughty-four.
Most candidates, I must admit,
Seem at their best the day they quit.
Dec 23, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Incubator Returns! The Incubator Returns!
So onward into 2003 we go, amid INS roundups of Middle Easterners in Southern California and the grand hunt for Saddam's "material breaches," which could be a song out of Gilbe...
Dec 23, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Strange Fruit Strange Fruit
I have a friend who is the only black person living in his luxury cooperative building. A few years back, there was a get-to-know-your-neighbor party.
Dec 23, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Rich Have Reason to Rejoice The Rich Have Reason to Rejoice
In Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," Ebenezer Scrooge was forced to view his own death in order to gain some self-awareness of his life as the epitome of cruelty and selfishness.
Dec 23, 2002 / Feature / Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele