Bush and Andersen’s Texas Two-Step Bush and Andersen’s Texas Two-Step
George W. Bush must be feeling an acute sense of déjà vu these days, as the dubious dealings of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, LLP take center stage in the En...
Jan 30, 2002 / Feature / Chris Floyd
What’s This About “Accountability.” What’s This About “Accountability.”
George W. Bush could not bring himself to mention the name "Enron" inhis State of the Union address. But no one doubted that, when thepresident spoke of the need for greater corpo...
Jan 30, 2002 / John Nichols
Bush’s Untouchable State of the Union Bush’s Untouchable State of the Union
He sure didn't leave the Democrats much room to maneuver. When George W. Bush delivered his first State of the Union address--a two-ply speech divided bet...
Jan 30, 2002 / David Corn
A Walk in the Valley of Greed A Walk in the Valley of Greed
What would Jesus do? It's a no-brainer; he would leave the Christian Coalition, take a consulting job with Enron and then use his divine power to make George W. Bush president.
Jan 29, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Come Off It, Kayo! Come Off It, Kayo!
Throwing the book at people is nothing new, but in our post-9/11 world the screws are tightening. Take San Francisco, whose District Attorney is Terence "Kayo" Hallinan, a progre...
Jan 24, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Letters Letters
JUST ANOTHER HATCHET JOB? New York City There is too much absurdity in the article you published about me in your Big Media issue to respond to all of it, ...
Jan 24, 2002 / Our Readers
License to Ink License to Ink
The subtitle sounds bad, but keep in mind that Thorstein Veblen considered subtitling his book on academics "A Study in Total Depravity." The really bad news concerns the title: ...
Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain
Building the Peace Building the Peace
"I stand before you today as a citizen of a country that has had nothing but disaster, war, brutality and deprivation against its people for many years," Hamid Karzai, leader of ...
Jan 24, 2002 / The Editors
Share Revenue, Save Jobs Share Revenue, Save Jobs
To the economy, September 11 now appears to have been a transient shock. Sales, confidence and the stock market plunged, but then returned. As the dead cat bounced, optimists dec...
Jan 24, 2002 / James K. Galbraith
‘The Ghat of the Only World’: Agha Shahid Ali in Brooklyn ‘The Ghat of the Only World’: Agha Shahid Ali in Brooklyn
The first time that Agha Shahid Ali, the great Kashmiri poet, spoke to me about his approaching death was in April of last year. The conversation began routinely. I had telephone...
Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amitav Ghosh