She Needed Fewer Friends She Needed Fewer Friends
Joe Pulitzer famously said, "A newspaper should have no friends." Looking at the massed ranks of America's elites attending Katharine Graham's funeral in Washington on July 23, i...
Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The Beat The Beat
CIVIL RIGHTS REFORM As House Republican leaders thwarted debate on the tepid Shays-Meehan campaign finance reform bill, the NAACP convention chose a radically different course by ...
Jul 27, 2001 / Column / John Nichols
The Leader of the Last Remaining Superpower Asserts Minimal Qualifications The Leader of the Last Remaining Superpower Asserts Minimal Qualifications
To those who say he cannot do it, Who claim his head is filled with suet, He says that he is plenty able To deal with issues on the table. Though he may have no depths to plu...
Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Aren’t We Happy Yet? Aren’t We Happy Yet?
There was a short note in the New York Times a few months ago reporting that Governor Jeb Bush wept while speaking to the Southern Regional Conference of the National Baptist Con...
Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Israel Shahak, 1933-2001 Israel Shahak, 1933-2001
In early June I sat on a panel, in front of a large and mainly Arab audience, with Thomas Friedman of the New York Times. Our hosts, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Commit...
Jul 12, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s… Superclone? It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s… Superclone?
Is human cloning a feminist issue?
Jul 12, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
A Strong Dollar Clouds Prospects For Quick Rebound A Strong Dollar Clouds Prospects For Quick Rebound
--Headline, New York Times The dollar's strong. That must be good. It's doing what a dollar should. Not so. The world cannot afford our...
Jul 12, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
STOP THE PRESSES! (Tabloid Edition) STOP THE PRESSES! (Tabloid Edition)
WILLIAM KRISTOL KIDNAPPED BY ALIENS-- REPLACED BY SILLY, DISHONEST IMPOSTER "I admit it. The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as...
Jun 28, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
The People’s Power The People’s Power
Act I We're on the edge of the twentieth century and Mayor James Phelan of San Francisco concludes that without abundant water and electrical power San Francisco is stymie...
Jun 28, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
A New, Simpler Analysis of the Recent Bush-Putin Summit A New, Simpler Analysis of the Recent Bush-Putin Summit
Bush and Putin talk together, To each other's charms succumb. Bush thinks Putin can be trusted. Putin thinks that Bush is dumb. Bush and Putin end their meeting, Smile...
Jun 28, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin