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
Dinner Theater Dinner Theater
When I taught at Ted Bundy's alma mater, one student wrote this report: "He was our babysitter. He was not a very nice babysitter. He would play games and scare us and then say th...
Mar 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo
The Black-White Wealth Gap The Black-White Wealth Gap
Net worth, more than any other statistic, shows the depth of racial inequality.
Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / Dalton Conley
The Old Man and the CIA: A Kennedy Plot to Kill Castro? The Old Man and the CIA: A Kennedy Plot to Kill Castro?
New evidence of a CIA scheme to use Ernest Hemingway's Cuban farm.
Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / David Corn and Gus Russo
Whodunit–the Media? Whodunit–the Media?
It's easy to blame cartoons for gun-toting kids. But the truth isn't so tidy.
Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / Maggie Cutler
Trading With the Enemy Trading With the Enemy
Multinationals, their intellectual coverings shredded, are love-bombing labor while hunting for new fig leaves.
Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / William Greider
Deconstructing the Election Deconstructing the Election
The history which bears and determines us has the form of a war rather than that of a language: relations of power, not relations of meaning. ...
Mar 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Win McCormack
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 6, 2001 / The Editors