Sex, Lies and Politics Sex, Lies and Politics
Congress is poised to reauthorize fearmongering "abstinence-only" sex ed.
Apr 19, 2001 / Feature / Marjorie Heins
Bush Unites the Enviros Bush Unites the Enviros
In early April an alert was sent out by a longtime oceans activist worried that the Bush Administration was about to reverse a program to establish marine protected areas. A numbe...
Apr 19, 2001 / David Helvarg
Bush’s Contra Buddies Bush’s Contra Buddies
The current President George Bush, whose very name evokes a dark era many would prefer to forget, seems determined to resurrect the ghosts of America's scandal-ridden past. A numb...
Apr 19, 2001 / Peter Kornbluh
Compassionate Aversionism Compassionate Aversionism
Within weeks of taking office, President Bush started to dispense compassionate conservatism with a vengeance. As the first order of business, he moved to give a massive tax windf...
Apr 19, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gara LaMarche
Otto Reich, WRAP Star Otto Reich, WRAP Star
Otto Reich is the vice chairman of Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production or WRAP, a clothing-industry front founded about a year ago to undermine the growing antisweatshop move...
Apr 17, 2001 / Feature / Alec Dubro
Bush Vs. Green Bush Vs. Green
Barbara Kingsolver, renowned author of The Poisonwood Bible and Prodigal Summer, wrote this call-to-action against the profound threats the new administration poses to
Apr 15, 2001 / Barbara Kingsolver
In Fact… In Fact…
VILLARAIGOSA IN LA Labor Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa's raucous victory party at Union Station on April 10 was rife with the symbolism of a Los Angeles undergoing radical change...
Apr 12, 2001 / The Editors
Letters Letters
'FALSE AND DISTORTED' New York City Christopher Hitchens's diatribe on Professor Elie Wiesel's essay on Jerusalem in the New York Times is a false and distor...
Apr 12, 2001 / Our Readers
Science or Politics? Science or Politics?
A question for the new millennium: When there is no paper, is there still a paper trail? Answer: Not unless you vacuum the Internet and print the download.
Apr 12, 2001 / Feature / Terry J. Allen
Chasing the Chador Chasing the Chador
Pauline Kael (that scamp) once called the Italian neorealist classic The Earth Trembles "the best boring movie ever made." Today the earth is inundated with Iranian neo-neorealism...
Apr 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo