In Fact… In Fact…
POTENTATE'S PERKS It's been known that Jack Welch is worth $900 million and that he draws a $9 million annual pension from General Electric. But it turns out that GE als...
Sep 12, 2002 / The Editors
The Coup That Wasn’t The Coup That Wasn’t
During the two-day opera buffa that was the on-again, off-again military coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice played a ...
Sep 11, 2002 / Marc Cooper
CNN Rushes Rush* CNN Rushes Rush*
I probably should listen to Rush Limbaugh, but I don't. The way I figure it, I did my time while researching my book Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot.
Sep 11, 2002 / Al Franken
Impaired Intelligence Impaired Intelligence
In July the Washington Post, under the headline "Panel Finds No 'Smoking Gun' in Probe of 9/11 Intelligence Failures," reported that the House and Senate intelligence committee...
Sep 5, 2002 / David Corn
One Year Later One Year Later
In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Americans experienced a mixture of fear and warmth, a quickening of the national spirit. The extraordinary heroism of th...
Sep 5, 2002 / The Editors
Changing History Changing History
Editor's Note: One year after the attacks, Eric Foner assessed the impact of 9/11 on the way America tells the story of itself and readjusts its relationship with the world. ...
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
The Imperial Presidency The Imperial Presidency
The August 26 speech by Vice President Dick Cheney at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Nashville has made at least two things clear: first, that the Bush Administration ...
Aug 29, 2002 / The Editors
Booby Traps at Rio + 10 Booby Traps at Rio + 10
When Rio hosted the first Earth Summit in 1992, there was so much goodwill surrounding the event that it was nicknamed, without irony, the Summit to Save the World. This week in J...
Aug 29, 2002 / Naomi Klein