Beyond McCain-Feingold Beyond McCain-Feingold
The Senate's passage of McCain-Feingold was welcome if only as a comeuppance to the Trent Lotts and Mitch McConnells who had arrogantly defied popular sentiment by keeping the ...
Apr 5, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
In Fact… In Fact…
HOW THE 'MAESTRO' HAS FALLEN William Greider writes: While it is not exactly news that Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspanhas fallen from his state of infallible grace, t...
Apr 5, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
Publish or Speech Perishes Publish or Speech Perishes
In the words of the old folk song, "When will they ever learn?" David Horowitz, former radical who these days is in the business of promoting (1) neoconservatism and (2) David ...
Apr 5, 2001 / Editorial / Victor Navasky
Nation Notes Nation Notes
We're pleased to announce that Jamie Lincoln Kitman's special report, "The Secret History of Lead" (March 20, 2000), has been awarded the Investigative Reporters and Editors' hig...
Apr 5, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
The Doctor Killers The Doctor Killers
The arrest in France of James Kopp, the accused assassin of Buffalo obstetrician Barnett Slepian, could not have come at a more awkward time for the Bush Administration. Bush inau...
Apr 5, 2001 / Editorial / Bruce Shapiro
Leading Los Angeles Leading Los Angeles
Survey the political terrain of this, America's second-largest city, on the eve of the April 10 mayoral vote, and the only possible conclusion is: What a Difference a Decade Makes...
Mar 30, 2001 / Editorial / Marc Cooper
A Time To Be Bold A Time To Be Bold
In recent months, as a newly elected senator, I have had to decide whether to join the Democratic Leadership Council. I have chosen not to because while I shared its founding purp...
Mar 30, 2001 / Editorial / Gov. Jon Corzine
Cold War Talk Cold War Talk
The prevailing view of the Bush Administration's expulsion of some fifty Russian diplomats in retaliation for the Robert Hanssen spy scandal has been that it was a throwback to co...
Mar 30, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
The Times v. Moyers The Times v. Moyers
On March 26, PBS carried something that has become increasingly rare in our media-besotted land: genuine journalism. The program was an explosive investigation by Bill Moyers and ...
Mar 30, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
Here Come the Judges Here Come the Judges
All signs point to an all-out drive by the Bush Administration to slot judicial conservatives into the eighty-nine current vacancies on the federal bench. The recent to-do about e...
Mar 30, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors