April 15, 2002 Issue

Feature

Enron: What Dick Cheney Knew

A probe of the company’s White House ties should begin at his door.
John Nichols
Housing: An LA Story

Two years after a tragic accident, activists are celebrating a major victory.
Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele
Is There a Future for Pacifica?

The jury is still out on whether it can restore, let alone enhance, its influence.
Susan J. Douglas
Fighting for America’s Energy Independence

Renewables are coming on strong, despite fat subsidies for oil and coal.
Matt Bivens
Monterrey and the World

How are we to read the International Conference on Financing for Development, which recently concluded in Monterrey, Mexico? Just another United Nations talkathon?
Patrick Smith
Right Watch

With compromise legislation stranded in Congress, the report card on the President’s faith-based initiative reads “incomplete.” Bush, however, has clearly succeeded on two fronts.
Bill Berkowitz

Column

Nixon Library Woes

The daughters, Trish and Julie, now aren’t speaking.
Without more dough, the roof will soon be leaking.
It really isn’t clear just who’s in charge.
Most tapes and papers still remain at large.
The tapes may show, when they’re where they belong,
The Jews have caused these troubles all along.
Calvin Trillin
Adventures in Book Reviewing

Katha Pollitt
The God Squad

Christopher Hitchens
Bush Fiddled While Mideast Burned

There is enough blame to go around for the events that have turned the Camp David promise of peace into the killing fields of the Mideast without dragging in President Bush.
Robert Scheer

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