January 28, 2002 Issue

Feature

Rx Needed for Medical Journals

Drug companies influence research; they also affect what gets published.
Sonia Shah
A New Middle East Approach

It’s time for the UN Security Council to impose “externally directed separation.”
Jerome M. Segal
Huey Freeman: American Hero

Sure, he’s a cartoon character, but it still takes courage to speak out.
John Nichols
Reading Between the Lines

The new education law is a victory for Bush–and for his corporate allies.
Stephen Metcalf

Column

Lesson Learned

Bush says he’d take a thousand whacks
Before he’d let the income tax
Of all the richest people go back up.
Remember Daddy’s tax-hike fix.
An old dog may not learn new tricks,
But demonstrates the flubbed ones to his pup.

Calvin Trillin
Forbidden Truth?

Alexander Cockburn
Judging the Wise Guys

Eric Alterman
Bush to Lay: What Was Your Name Again?

If you believe President Bush, Kenneth Lay–one of his top financial backers and his “good friend”–was merely an equal-opportunity corrupter of our political system, buying off Democrats and Rep
Robert Scheer

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