Politics

Right With Bush Right With Bush

Every conservative is now a compassionate conservative. Well, most were at the recent annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which drew more than 3,000 right-wing acti...

Feb 23, 2001 / David Corn

Bush’s Nuclear Revival Bush’s Nuclear Revival

George W. Bush's mid-February directive ordering the Pentagon to review and restructure the US nuclear arsenal is a wake-up call for supporters of arms control and disarmament....

Feb 23, 2001 / William D. Hartung

Thomas Speaks! Thomas Speaks!

Back during the presidential campaign, George W. Bush called Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia his favorite Supreme Court Justices--a remark widely interpreted at the time as ...

Feb 23, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro

The Beat The Beat

GREEN GIANT KILLER Back in the early days of the Clinton Administration, then-North Dakota Agriculture Secretary Sarah Vogel was touted as a potential US Secretary of Agriculture....

Feb 15, 2001 / Column / John Nichols

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

REFORM CANDIDATE "Of reconsiderations of Western socialism, there is no end," Norman Birnbaum writes cheekily at the opening of his new book--and immediately sets out to show us (...

Feb 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

SDS’s Other Wars SDS’s Other Wars

With over 100,000 members in college and university chapters, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was the largest and most significant of the 1960s New Left organizations in ...

Feb 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Jim Russell

A Short Course on Getting a Presidential Pardon While a Fugitive From Justice A Short Course on Getting a Presidential Pardon While a Fugitive From Justice

Apply a little grease
(Denise).
Then buy yourself an in
(Jack Quinn).

Feb 15, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Letters Letters

THE SUITES & THE SWEATS New York City In "Economists vs. Students" [Feb. 12], Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood cheer on students who demand tha...

Feb 15, 2001 / Doug Henwood, Liza Featherstone, Gene Santoro, and Our Readers

The Embarrassment of the Riches The Embarrassment of the Riches

Are the Clintons better off than they were eight years ago? The evidence appears to point to a resounding yes. So why do they seem to resent the question? Probably because only a f...

Feb 15, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Bush’s Hit Man Bush’s Hit Man

GOP strategist Karl Rove and the politics of destruction.

Feb 15, 2001 / Feature / Lou Dubose

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