Feeding the Hungry Feeding the Hungry
When Bill Clinton signed the welfare overhaul in 1996, he and his supporters promised that its problems could be fixed later. One problem at the top of the list was the bill's sav...
Mar 21, 2002 / Editorial / David Sarasohn
The US & the Mideast The US & the Mideast
What was originally billed as Dick Cheney's mission to recruit Arab nations' support for ousting Saddam Hussein became a lecture tour on the urgency of dealing with the Israeli-Pa...
Mar 21, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors
As Zimbabwe Goes… As Zimbabwe Goes…
On March 10 the citizens of a small African country went to the polls to cast their votes for an incumbent with a reputation as one of the continent's most unreconstructed tyrants...
Mar 21, 2002 / Editorial / Mark Gevisser
Star Wars Unbound Star Wars Unbound
The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency is on the verge of getting a sweetheart deal that is beyond the wildest dreams of even the craftiest Enron executive. If Secretary of Defense...
Mar 21, 2002 / Editorial / William D. Hartung
Steeling Elections Steeling Elections
In early March, the Bush Administration adopted a policy that the steel industry as well as the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) have long been agitating for--tariffs on stee...
Mar 21, 2002 / Editorial / Doug Henwood
Milosevic at the Bar Milosevic at the Bar
The trial in The Hague of the first state president indicted for genocide was to be the ultimate showdown. In the culmination of a fifty-year struggle by the human rights communit...
Mar 14, 2002 / Editorial / Anthony Borden
Bush Goes Nuclear Bush Goes Nuclear
George W. Bush went out of his way to praise America's allies in his speech marking the six-month anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In a clear...
Mar 14, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors
Enron Untouchables Enron Untouchables
Tom White, who pocketed millions running Enron Energy Services, one of Enron's more egregious frauds, remains Army Secretary even after lying to the Senate about his Enron holding...
Mar 14, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors
Going Down the Road Going Down the Road
Campaign for a Living Wage
Mar 14, 2002 / Editorial / Jim Hightower
In Fact… In Fact…
GAY RIGHTS IN ALABAMA Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who defied a 1994 federal court ruling prohibiting him from displaying the Ten Commandments in a state courtroom by placing...
Mar 14, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors