Colin Powell’s Vietnam Fog

The war was years ago, but that does not excuse misrepresenting one's participation in it.

David Corn

Grover Norquist: ‘Field Marshal’ of the Bush Plan

He's an archconservative who thinks big and knows how to get things done.

Bob Dreyfuss

Time to Bring the Troops Home

America's provocative military posture in Asia makes war with China more likely.

Chalmers Johnson

Kennard, the Public & the FCC

The former FCC chairman says he's bitter about the effective dismantling of his low-power radio plan. Under his successor, such an idea won't even get raised.

Robert W. McChesney

Black Entertainment Television’s ‘Lifestyle’ Choice

The departure of Tavis Smiley leaves a hole in the programming calendar of BET, but that's only part of the problem.

Makani Themba

No FTAA, No Fast Track

With NAFTA as an ugly precedent, the proposed trade pact is generating serious opposition from a number of social and economic sources.

the Editors

The Worst 100 Days

It's back to the future with the George W. Bush who is leading the nation--in the hard-edged style of the recent fiasco in Florida.

the Editors

AIDS: The New Apartheid

A campaign to help sick people in need of unaffordable medicines is clashing with forces in the global pharmaceutical industry.

Mark Gevisser

In Fact…

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Covenant With Death

The death penalty needs to be thought through by liberals, and its acceptance or rejection cannot be á la carte.

Christopher Hitchens

Childcare Scare

Studies on the effects of childcare on the young are colored by researchers' views about educated women who go to work.

Katha Pollitt

Will China Deign to Give Us Back Our Plane?

Calvin Trillin

Presidents, Not Kerreys, Bred Horror of Vietnam

A tangled web of disingenuous calculation marked developments there, and the public was the more deceived.

Robert Scheer

The Designer Workplace

Debra Cash visits the Museum of Modern Art's "Workspheres" exhibition.

Debra Cash

Who Lost the Working Class?

A funny thing happened on the way to the election--here's what it portends.

Andrew Levison

Mexico at the Multiplex

B. Ruby Rich reviews the films Amores Perros and Spy Kids.

B. Ruby Rich

Black Entertainment Television’s ‘Lifestyle’ Choice

The departure of Tavis Smiley leaves a hole in the programming calendar of BET, but that's only part of the problem.

Makani Themba

Prochoice Generation Gap?

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