Pardons in Perspective Pardons in Perspective
We learned a few things from Dan Burton's hearings into the Clinton pardons. We learned that Bill Clinton's pardon of billionaire expatriate Marc Rich was no last-minute rush job....
Mar 8, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
Kodak’s Nazi Connections Kodak’s Nazi Connections
New information recently uncovered at the National Archives reveals that subsidiaries of the Eastman Kodak company traded with Nazi Germany long after America had entered the war....
Mar 8, 2001 / Editorial / John S. Friedman
In Fact… In Fact…
PAYBACK AND ROLLBACK TIME FOR LABOR It's grimly appropriate that the legislative weapon Senate Republicans (joined by six anti-labor Democrats) used to kill OSHA's ergonomics regu...
Mar 8, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
An Out-of-Control Court An Out-of-Control Court
Unchastened by the widespread denunciation of their election decisions, the Supreme Court's conservative bloc seems determined to continue using its one-vote majority to ram throu...
Mar 8, 2001 / Editorial / Herman Schwartz
Charity for All Charity for All
President George W. Bush's effort to repeal the estate tax has revealed contradictions in the nonprofit sector and confusion about what it values and where it stands.
Mar 6, 2001 / Editorial / Mark Rosenman
Pardons in Perspective Pardons in Perspective
We learned a few things from Dan Burton's hearings into the Clinton pardons. We learned that Bill Clinton's pardon of billionaire expatriate Marc Rich was no last-minute rush job.
Mar 6, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
The Florida Fog The Florida Fog
The truth is out there--perhaps. During the postelection turmoil in Florida, Al Gore advocates prophesied that after the inauguration, journalists would descend on the disputed ba...
Mar 1, 2001 / Editorial / David Corn
Bosnian Women Witness Bosnian Women Witness
About a year and a half ago I received a book from Bosnia. Its title was I Begged Them to Kill Me. It was a collection of some forty accounts by Muslim women who were raped, mostl...
Mar 1, 2001 / Editorial / Slavenka Drakulic
Bush’s Bogus Budget Bush’s Bogus Budget
The loudest applause during George W. Bush's first budget address to Congress--a thumping, shouting, jump-to-your-feet outpouring of enthusiasm--erupted in response to his first m...
Mar 1, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
In Fact… In Fact…
MCCARTHYISM ALIVE AND WELL IN NH New Hampshire State Senator Burt Cohen thought that putting up a plaque honoring the Abraham Lincoln Brigade would provide a history lesson about...
Mar 1, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors