Bush Binds Us Into a Fiscal Straitjacket Bush Binds Us Into a Fiscal Straitjacket
Are we all dimwits? We just sit there with goofy looks on our faces while the economy sputters and the President blows what remains of the budget surplus on a tax giveaway to ...
Aug 28, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer
West Bank Dreamin’ West Bank Dreamin’
Last night I had the strangest dream... All of America's wealthy, conservative and safely belligerent pundits had been delivered by a just and beneficent Almighty Pow...
Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Hot Air Is Bad for Us Hot Air Is Bad for Us
The current uproar over the posture of the Bush Administration on global warming and, most recently, on power-plant emissions vividly illustrates the political hypocrisy an...
Aug 23, 2001 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
The Sultan’s Brother Does a Service to Humanity The Sultan’s Brother Does a Service to Humanity
The brother of the Sultan of Brunei Set out to see how much a guy could buy, And fifteen billion's what he finally spent Before the sultan voiced some discontent. The guilt o...
Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
We Are the World We Are the World
At 5 o'clock in the morning, the radio alarm begins to blare the news. The United States is threatening to pull out of the World Conference Against Racism if the conversati...
Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
You Can Use God to Justify Anything You Can Use God to Justify Anything
The country was founded on the idea of keeping religion and politics separate--but you'd hardly know this by the way the idea of the Almighty has intruded itself into political...
Aug 21, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer
Vieques Si! Yanqui No? Vieques Si! Yanqui No?
Puerto Ricans of all stripes question the Navy's presence there.
Aug 9, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Baby, It’s Cold Inside! Baby, It’s Cold Inside!
Should the question of personhood at the embryo stage really be decided by politicians?
Aug 9, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
On Kim Jong Il’s Announcement On Kim Jong Il’s Announcement
We said that Kim Jong Il was just the guy For whom we needed Star Wars in the sky. Now Kim Jong Il declares we needn't worry That he might up and bomb us in a hurry: He isn't testing for the missile race; He's got a moratorium in place. Does this, then, mean that we won't have to wield A multibillion-dollar missile shield? Well, no, for other wicked rogues remain. If they go, we'll find others as profane. If all rogues disappear, we won't be glum, We'll hope that if we build it, they will come.
Aug 9, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Hey Buddy, Wanna Buy a Bridge? Hey Buddy, Wanna Buy a Bridge?
The problem of punditocracy ignorance does not usually constitute a national security threat. If most Americans walk around misinformed about Gary Condit's sexual escapades or El...
Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman