The Three Horsemen The Three Horsemen
President-elect Bush's naming of former Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton as Interior Secretary and recently defeated Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham as Energy Secretary sug...
Jan 11, 2001 / Feature / David Helvarg
Whitman: A Toxic Choice Whitman: A Toxic Choice
When W. gave the nod to New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman for the top EPA spot in his administration, the tone-deaf national press corps praised the appointment of a "mod...
Jan 11, 2001 / Feature / Doug Ireland
Rumsfeld: Star Warrior Returns Rumsfeld: Star Warrior Returns
The surprise selection of Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary provides a clear signal of President-elect George W. Bush's intent to transform radically the military policy of th...
Jan 11, 2001 / Feature / Michael T. Klare
Teaching Test-Taking? Teaching Test-Taking?
The establishment verdict is in: President-elect Bush made an astute choice by tapping Rod Paige, Houston's School Superintendent, to head his Education Department. The New York ...
Jan 11, 2001 / Feature / Stephen Metcalf
Labor’s Fight Has Just Begun Labor’s Fight Has Just Begun
In the end, Linda Chavez undid her own nomination through her disingenuousness. Bush's first nominee as Labor Secretary withdrew after a storm of publicity about her relationship...
Jan 11, 2001 / Feature / David Moberg
No Friend of the Farmer No Friend of the Farmer
The fierce farm crisis that is ravaging rural America garnered scant attention during the 2000 presidential campaign, so it came as no surprise that President-elect George W. Bus...
Jan 11, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols
Unions Without Borders Unions Without Borders
A new kind of internationalism is challenging neoliberal globalism.
Jan 5, 2001 / Feature / David Bacon
Bush’s Hammer Bush’s Hammer
House GOP whip Tom DeLay will do his best to pull the President to the right.
Jan 5, 2001 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
George Bush’s Democrats George Bush’s Democrats
Who are George Bush's bipartisan Democrats?
Jan 5, 2001 / Feature / Jesse Jackson Jr.
Bush’s Phony ‘Bipartisanship’ Bush’s Phony ‘Bipartisanship’
The danger: He might sell the idea, and his agenda, with the help of a few Democrats.
Jan 5, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols