Taiwangate?–Bush Appointees Linked to Secret Slush Funds UPDATE Taiwangate?–Bush Appointees Linked to Secret Slush Funds UPDATE
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Allegations that a past president of Taiwan illegally set up a $100 million secret slush fund to pay for overs...
Apr 2, 2002 / David Corn
Bush Fiddled While Mideast Burned 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.
Apr 2, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Peace And Nuclear Disarmament: A Call To Action Peace And Nuclear Disarmament: A Call To Action
"... Come my friends,
'tis not too late to seek
a newer world, ..."Apr 1, 2002 / Dennis Kucinich
W’s Biggest Enron Liability: The Case Against Thomas White Grows W’s Biggest Enron Liability: The Case Against Thomas White Grows
Army Secretary Thomas White, a former high-ranking Enron, told reporters a few days ago that "if I ever get to the point....where the Enron business represe...
Mar 29, 2002 / David Corn
Fighting for America’s Energy Independence Fighting for America’s Energy Independence
Renewables are coming on strong, despite fat subsidies for oil and coal.
Mar 28, 2002 / Feature / Matt Bivens
The Fishnet Fallacy The Fishnet Fallacy
When a girl becomes her school's designated slut, her friends stop talking to her. Pornographic rumors spread with dazzling efficiency, boys harass her openly in the hallways, gir...
Mar 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Elaine Blair
Song of the Sunshine State Song of the Sunshine State
Campbell McGrath's entertaining and frustrating fifth book of poems--every single one of them devoted to some aspect of Florida--raises two large questions. One has to do with rep...
Mar 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Burt
Free Trade Bush’s Way Free Trade Bush’s Way
On the eve of George W. Bush's recent tour of Latin America, Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes equated the advantages of a global free market with the peaks of the Himalayas, characte...
Mar 28, 2002 / Marc Cooper
Is There a Future for Pacifica? Is There a Future for Pacifica?
The jury is still out on whether it can restore, let alone enhance, its influence.
Mar 28, 2002 / Feature / Susan J. Douglas
Housing: An LA Story Housing: An LA Story
Two years after a tragic accident, activists are celebrating a major victory.
Mar 28, 2002 / Feature / Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele