February 18, 2002 Issue
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Features
Tricky Dick II
Having simmered on the back burner through the aftermath of September 11, Congress's effort to obtain records from Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force has now reached the boiling p
Nate Blakeslee
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Indian Giving
"I see Native people dying every day because they can't afford health insurance," Elouise Cobell said over the phone in mid-January from Washington, DC, as she prepared to testify against Interi
Chris Lombardi
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A Recovered Movement
On Saturday, February 2, approximately 12,000 demonstrators gathered in New York City to protest the meeting of the World Economic Forum.
Liza Featherstone
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The Power of Nonviolence
The movement can seize the moral high ground and win support for change.
David Cortright
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Another World Is Possible
The challenge to global capitalism is more relevant now than before September 11.
Susan George
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The Miner’s Canary
The problems of people of color show what's wrong with American democracy.
Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres
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Shall We Leave It to the Experts?
Enron's power project in India demonstrates who benefits from globalization.
Arundhati Roy
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Editorials
Statement in Support of Legislation to Prohibit Cloning
We, the undersigned, support legislation to prohibit the cloning of human embryos for either medical experimentation or for giving birth to a human being.
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All Together Now…
It was not without warning that Congress voted to end welfare-as-we-knew-it in 1996, but still, it seemed to catch the progressive community off-guard.
the Editors
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Columns
An Orgy of Defense Spending
Now we get to see just how cowardly the Democrats in Congress can be.
Robert Scheer
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Enron Hearings
(With apologies to Stephen Foster)
The Enron hearings stretch ahead,
Doo-dah, doo-dah,
Until the final soundbite's said.
Oh, doo-dah day.Pols will posture night,
Pols will posture day.
They'll show the voters just how tough they are,
Browbeating some CPA.They'll talk of all the laws they'll make,
Doo-dah, doo-dah.
And meanwhile they're still on the take.
Oh, doo-dah day.Pols will posture day,
Pols will posture night.
The guy who's shmeered them for a dozen years
Now is the guy they'd indict.Calvin Trillin
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Kissinger’s Green Light to Suharto
In a few weeks, East Timor will be able to celebrate both its independence as a country and its status as a democracy. Elections will have produced a government able to seek and receive international recognition. An undetermined number of Timorese, herded by the Indonesian Army into the western part of the island during the last spasms of cruelty before Jakarta formally abandoned its claim to the territory, will not be able to celebrate. And the entire process is gruesomely overshadowed by the murder of at least a quarter of a million Timorese during the illegal Indonesian occupation.
Christopher Hitchens
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Books and the Arts
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