The Wages of Greed The Wages of Greed
Events in Washington are potentially momentous, but hold the applause. In late May, the Dow was at 10,300, but by mid-July it had dropped almost 2,000 points. The Nasdaq and S&...
Jul 18, 2002 / The Editors
Doublespeak on Guns Doublespeak on Guns
In a brief filed in connection with an appeal to the Supreme Court in a gun possession case, the Bush Justice Department, breaking with sixty years of jurisprudence, asserts that ...
Jul 18, 2002 / Julian Epstein
12 Steps to Breaking Enronesque Habits 12 Steps to Breaking Enronesque Habits
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Jul 18, 2002 / Feature / Scott Klinger and Holly Sklar
Bush and Harken Bush and Harken
Last week, while Bush spoke to Wall Street about corporate malfeasance, he was beset by questions about the timing of his sale of stock twelve years ago while he served as a dire...
Jul 18, 2002 / Feature / Jason Leopold
Cheney’s Grimy Trail in Business Cheney’s Grimy Trail in Business
Vice President Dick Cheney has spent most of the past year in hiding, ostensibly from terrorists, but increasingly it seems obvious that it is Congress, the Securities and Exchan...
Jul 17, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Guerrilla Radio Guerrilla Radio
Guerrilla Radio, published by NationBooks, is the remarkable story of B92, a Belgrade radio station founded in 1989 by a group of young idealists who simply wanted to "play rock '...
Jul 10, 2002 / Feature / Matthew Collin
A Fox Is About to Reassure Us Hens A Fox Is About to Reassure Us Hens
For President Bush to pretend to be shocked that some of the nation's top executives deal from a stacked deck is akin to a madam feigning surprise that sexual favors have been so...
Jul 9, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Values Fall Prey to Hypocrisy Values Fall Prey to Hypocrisy
For a long time now, we secular humanists and other skeptics have been denigrated as the apostles of decadence and social decay.
Jul 9, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Citizen Jane Citizen Jane
A half-century ago T.H. Marshall, British Labour Party social theorist, offered a progressive, developmental theory for understanding the history of what we have come to call citi...
Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Linda Gordon
Screen Rage Screen Rage
One of the most persistent myths in the culture wars today is that social science has proven "media violence" to cause adverse effects. The debate is over; the evidence is over...
Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Marjorie Heins