SAT–A Failing Test SAT–A Failing Test
Educators have long known the rap sheet on the SAT, the college entrance exam that millions of young people have taken as a rite of passage for some seventy-five years. Since its ...
Mar 15, 2001 / Peter Sacks
Mangler-in-Chief Mangler-in-Chief
Last month, the Boston Globe broke the amazing news that President George W. Bush is rapidly becoming the Pericles of modern politics.
Mar 13, 2001 / Ken Silverstein
A Scholarly Analysis of Dick Cheney’s Role in the George W. Bush Administration A Scholarly Analysis of Dick Cheney’s Role in the George W. Bush Administration
Though Bush the Elder was convinced His boy was now a man, he Decided, just to hedge his bet, To furnish him a nanny. Attentive parents always have A way of keeping tr...
Mar 8, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Letters Letters
NUCLEAR POWER & US New York City I would like to provide an update on some remarkable events that followed Joseph Mangano's epidemiological discovery tha...
Mar 8, 2001 / Our Readers
When Ignorance Is Bliss When Ignorance Is Bliss
I have eaten more than my share of Whoppers in my forty-one years. As a teenager I liked them so much I'd worry about whether I could afford another one while still eating the fi...
Mar 8, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
What Are Spies For? What Are Spies For?
The air now quivers with gloomy assessments of the secrets "compromised" by the FBI's Robert Hanssen, a senior official who stands accused of working for the Russians since 1985....
Mar 8, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Name the President! Name the President!
There were so many brilliant entries to our Name the President Contest that our judges were hard pressed to choose the winning five. (Up to the February 19 deadline the count was ...
Mar 8, 2001 / The Editors
Our Presidential Libraries Our Presidential Libraries
Allegations that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich partly in return for donations to his presidential library have raised questions about the value of such institutions and the...
Mar 8, 2001 / Robert Dallek
Pardons in Perspective Pardons in Perspective
We learned a few things from Dan Burton's hearings into the Clinton pardons. We learned that Bill Clinton's pardon of billionaire expatriate Marc Rich was no last-minute rush job....
Mar 8, 2001 / The Editors
Kodak’s Nazi Connections Kodak’s Nazi Connections
New information recently uncovered at the National Archives reveals that subsidiaries of the Eastman Kodak company traded with Nazi Germany long after America had entered the war....
Mar 8, 2001 / John S. Friedman