White Should Go–Now White Should Go–Now
Army Secretary Thomas White appears to be inching closer to becoming the first Bush Administration casualty of the Enron scandal. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer of Ca...
May 9, 2002 / Editorial / Jason Leopold
When Is a Coup a Coup? When Is a Coup a Coup?
On April 11, 2002, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was ousted in an ill-fated coup attempt. On April 14 he returned in triumph to the presidential palace. What to call the ...
May 9, 2002 / Editorial / Scott Sherman
Support for Refuseniks Support for Refuseniks
About three weeks ago, Moti Perry, an economics professor from Hebrew University, organized twenty-eight of his colleagues and together they published a letter supporting studen...
May 9, 2002 / Editorial / Neve Gordon
Afghan Victims Deserve US Support Afghan Victims Deserve US Support
When Congress contemplates the upcoming 2002 Supplemental Appropriations bill, there's a small item that should be added to the budget: $20 million to help the Afghan people who w...
May 3, 2002 / Editorial / Medea Benjamin and Jason Mark
No-Risk Electioneering No-Risk Electioneering
A news photograph of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf in a green pagaree, an ornamental turban, was proof enough that the somewhat dapper and, perhaps, truly disinterested ge...
May 3, 2002 / Editorial / Andy McCord
Jews for Justice Jews for Justice
They call us "self-hating" Jews when we raise criticisms of Israeli policies. Yet most of those Jews who risk this calumny as the cost of getting involved actually feel a specia...
May 2, 2002 / Editorial / Rabbi Michael Lerner
Kerrey’s Case: Not Closed Kerrey’s Case: Not Closed
One year after the story broke that a Navy SEAL team under his command was involved in an atrocity during the Vietnam War, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey stood before a packed...
May 2, 2002 / Editorial / Eyal Press
Supreme Court v. Unions Supreme Court v. Unions
The recent decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board makes it plain that the Court's majority lives in denial...
May 2, 2002 / Editorial / David Bacon
More Accounting Tricks More Accounting Tricks
Since the fall of the House of Enron, Republicans have been polishing their populist patter. George W. Bush cast aside his patron, Enron CEO Ken "Kenny Boy" Lay, and proclaimed hi...
May 2, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors