Childcare Scare Childcare Scare
Studies on the effects of childcare on the young are colored by researchers' views about educated women who go to work.
Apr 26, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Will China Deign to Give Us Back Our Plane? Will China Deign to Give Us Back Our Plane?
(With apologies to Alan Jay Lerner) Will China deign to give us back our plane? We know they've got it. Will China deign to give us back our plane? For sure, they've got it. It goes against our grain To explain. It's a pain. And yet they still retain Our plane. Our plane! Will China deign to give us back our plane? Will China deign to give us back our plane? What more can they obtain That's germane from our plane? In vain do we complain. It's plain insane! Their government is truly inhumane, So should we bomb them into beef chow mein?
Apr 26, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Lie to the Media, Get a Job Lie to the Media, Get a Job
Perhaps I underestimate the joy of being given a silly nickname by the Leader of the Free World, but I'm having a hard time understanding why media big feet are so taken by the n...
Apr 19, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Justice Scotched in Lockerbie Trial Justice Scotched in Lockerbie Trial
There's a famous passage in Lord Cockburn's Memorials of His Time where the great Scotch judge and leading Whig stigmatizes some of his Tory predecessors on the bench, including ...
Apr 19, 2001 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
The Beat The Beat
THE RIGHT 'CHOICE' In the first statewide race since the presidential election, Wisconsin voters gave George W. Bush's education program a failing grade. They overwhelmingly reject...
Apr 19, 2001 / Column / John Nichols
Retro Retro
The corporate types are firmly in control. The Russians, it appears, have sent a mole To steal our secrets. And the Chinese wait For tension to develop in their Strait. It's ...
Apr 19, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Kiss of Henry The Kiss of Henry
It was touching to see Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger back on the tube again during the Hainan confrontation, with Brzezinski recommending to Jim Lehrer's audience that Ki...
Apr 12, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Analyze This Analyze This
This is not going to be a column blaming Ralph Nader and the Greens for the daily disasters of the Bush Administration, so don't stop reading--yet. That column has been written d...
Apr 12, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
On the Bush Administration’s Reversal Of Its Announcement That Testing School-Lunch Meat for Salmonella Would No Longer Be Required On the Bush Administration’s Reversal Of Its Announcement That Testing School-Lunch Meat for Salmonella Would No Longer Be Required
They'll check for salmonella, kids, It's safe as mozzarella, kids, Light up a panatella, kid. You've nothing more to fear. Give thanks for this new fella, kids. Sing p...
Apr 12, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The McCain-Feingold Bill The McCain-Feingold Bill
McCain and Feingold seem to have Big Mo: Soft money could now face a total ban. Which means some folks who've bought pols in the past Need now select a different purchase plan...
Apr 5, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin