Business Is Safe but Baseball Strikes Out Business Is Safe but Baseball Strikes Out

Everyone, from President Bush on down, seems to agree that major league baseball players are overpaid prima donnas who don't deserve the huge paychecks they get, let alone have a...

Aug 28, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Simplistic Hunt for Evil in a Complex World Simplistic Hunt for Evil in a Complex World

Doomed by the incoherence of a foreign policy defined largely by biblical notions of the struggle between good and evil, the Bush Administration thrashes about in its hunt for th...

Aug 21, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Sour Thoughts for Dog Days Sour Thoughts for Dog Days

Let's start with Cynthia McKinney. Don't you think that if Arab-American or African-American groups targeted an incumbent white, liberal, maybe Jewish, congressperson, and ship...

Aug 15, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The Accidental Commoner The Accidental Commoner

Al Gore is a man of the people.
At least, that's the case as we speak.
The earth-toney Harvard elitist,
Though gone, could return by next week.

Aug 15, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Mayor of My Hometown The Mayor of My Hometown

It's only August, but I'll go out on a limb and congratulate the Village Voice's Keith Harris for what I feel confident will stand the test of time as the stupidest comment of ...

Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Weighing a Just War, or Settling an Old Score? Weighing a Just War, or Settling an Old Score?

In a column from 2002, Robert Scheer takes a look back at the Bush Administrations's real motivation to go to war.

Aug 6, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Macbeth in Mesopotamia Macbeth in Mesopotamia

Concerning the impending or perhaps imminent intervention in Iraq, we now inhabit a peculiar limbo, where the military options are known while the political and moral options are n...

Aug 1, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Israel, There and Here Israel, There and Here

Refugee camp invasions. Suicide bombers. House demolitions. Suicide bombers. Arrests of children, curfews, roadblocks, collective punishments, dropping one-ton bombs on densely...

Aug 1, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney Lecture CEOs on Corporate Responsibility George W. Bush and Dick Cheney Lecture CEOs on Corporate Responsibility

"Creative accounting" is something we hate. From now on your numbers will have to be straight. No taking of options for stock you contrive To dump when insiders can tell it wi...

Aug 1, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Another Bankrupt Idea From Congress Another Bankrupt Idea From Congress

Thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbor by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.