Schmoozapalooza 2000 Schmoozapalooza 2000
So ABC is arranging its convention coverage around an exhibition football game. NBC is giving us just the acceptance speeches.
Jul 27, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
Can Truth Outlast a Green Light for Media Mergers? Can Truth Outlast a Green Light for Media Mergers?
Should the corporate owners of newspapers like the Los Angeles Times or the New York Post be allowed to own television stations in the same city?
Jul 24, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Politics 2001: Bush Rules, Gore Drools Politics 2001: Bush Rules, Gore Drools
Where is Al Gore? Maybe he hasn't noticed, but all sorts of horrible things are happening under the Bush Administration--just as he predicted. Yet Gore has been totally silent. ...
Jul 17, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
If Not Now… If Not Now…
There are a number of persuasive reasons to cast a vote for Ralph Nader in the fall, and a number of unpersuasive reasons, too.
Jul 13, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Bush Under Strain, a Heartbeat Away Bush Under Strain, a Heartbeat Away
So much good news has been generated by the Bush Administration concerning the health of Dick Cheney that perhaps all of us should have four heart attacks, a quadruple bypass, a st...
Jul 3, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
A Short History of Bill Richardson’s Campaign for the Vice Presidential Nomination A Short History of Bill Richardson’s Campaign for the Vice Presidential Nomination
What Bill was asked to do Bill always did.
There was no better soldier on the scene.
So why at Veep time won't he get the bid?
'Twas lost behind the copying machine.
Jun 29, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Rock & Roll Fantasies Rock & Roll Fantasies
It is a depressing rule for students of American political discourse that the more one happens to know about a given subject, the more amazing one finds the brazen ignorance that...
Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Want to Know a Secret?–There Are No Secrets Want to Know a Secret?–There Are No Secrets
These days, the once highly revered nuclear weapons lab at Los Alamos is the butt of jokes and investigations over the latest revelation--that top-secret files supposedly locke...
Jun 27, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Do As We Say, Not As We Do Do As We Say, Not As We Do
What's wrong with this picture?: Slobodan Milosevic will be dragged before an international war crimes tribunal while Robert McNamara tours American college campuses touting hi...
Jun 26, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Moral Property of Women The Moral Property of Women
Since 1988, when it became available in France, American women have been waiting for mifepristone.
Jun 22, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt