The Leader of the Last Remaining Superpower Asserts Minimal Qualifications The Leader of the Last Remaining Superpower Asserts Minimal Qualifications
To those who say he cannot do it, Who claim his head is filled with suet, He says that he is plenty able To deal with issues on the table. Though he may have no depths to plu...
Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Hey Buddy, Wanna Buy a Bridge? Hey Buddy, Wanna Buy a Bridge?
The problem of punditocracy ignorance does not usually constitute a national security threat. If most Americans walk around misinformed about Gary Condit's sexual escapades or El...
Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Aren’t We Happy Yet? Aren’t We Happy Yet?
There was a short note in the New York Times a few months ago reporting that Governor Jeb Bush wept while speaking to the Southern Regional Conference of the National Baptist Con...
Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Junk Journalism Junk Journalism
Although it happened in early July after ethically challenged Congressman Gary Condit finally admitted to police that he'd had an adulterous affair with 24-year-old Chandra Levy, ...
Jul 27, 2001 / Eric Boehlert
Audacity on Trial Audacity on Trial
Talking union still amounts to a punishable offense in parts of the Old South.
Jul 27, 2001 / Feature / JoAnn Wypijewski
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
"Bustin' Out," episode six of R.J. Cutler's breakthrough reality TV series American High, opens on 17-year-old Morgan Moss pointing a pistol at his mother's head and barking deman...
Jul 27, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Bravmann
She Needed Fewer Friends She Needed Fewer Friends
Joe Pulitzer famously said, "A newspaper should have no friends." Looking at the massed ranks of America's elites attending Katharine Graham's funeral in Washington on July 23, i...
Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
A Bush Summer Rerun? A Bush Summer Rerun?
The next scene in Return of the Bushies may feature Brent Scowcroft, who was National Security Adviser to Bush I. The anonymous leakers of Washington are whispering that Scowcroft...
Jul 27, 2001 / David Corn
Violence in Genoa Violence in Genoa
Demonstrations at the recent G-8 summit in Genoa resulted in
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Nicholas Jackson, Andrea Pertosa, Alex Crowley, Faith Hareldson, Troy Davis, Rob Miller, and Louise C. Hensleigh