Politics

What Price Stimulus? What Price Stimulus?

"Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes," George W. Bush cryptically proclaimed. The press dutifully translated what he really meant, but few commented on the tasteless...

Jan 10, 2002 / The Editors

Reading Between the Lines Reading Between the Lines

The new education law is a victory for Bush--and for his corporate allies.

Jan 10, 2002 / Feature / Stephen Metcalf

Making Money on Terror Making Money on Terror

Four months after September 11, Osama bin Laden is on the run and the Pentagon is riding high. Our warmaker in chief, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, has been described by t...

Jan 10, 2002 / William D. Hartung

Let Down His Rich Pals? Over His Dead Body Let Down His Rich Pals? Over His Dead Body

Talk about the politics of class struggle. George W. Bush now is apparently willing to give his life to make the rich richer.

Jan 10, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

A Troubling Sentence A Troubling Sentence

UPDATE, January 14

Jan 7, 2002 / Feature / Bob Burtman

Unforgiven Unforgiven

On August 21 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, a struggling oil-refinery town on the Texas border, Wilbert Rideau walked to the center of the modern courtroom, hobbled by shackles. The...

Jan 3, 2002 / Feature / Amy Bach

Primary Predicament Primary Predicament

With little public notice and no serious debate inside the party, Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe and his allies have hatched a plan to radically alter the...

Jan 3, 2002 / John Nichols

Fight for Survival in NYC Fight for Survival in NYC

Talk about rebuilding New York, and sooner or later someone will pipe up that out of crisis comes opportunity. It depends on where you stand. Right now what poor and working-clas...

Jan 3, 2002 / JoAnn Wypijewski

Killing Sanctions in Iraq Killing Sanctions in Iraq

Killing Sanctions in Iraq Killing Sanctions in Iraq New Haven, Conn. David Cortright's "A Hard Look at Iraq Sanctions" [Dec. 3] was a slick attempt to defend...

Jan 3, 2002 / David Cortright and Our Readers

Johnnie Walker Blackened Johnnie Walker Blackened

That would-be martyr John Walker--the mujahid of Marin County--has done something more than give a bad name to my favorite Scotch whiskey. He has illuminated the utter unfitness of...

Jan 3, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

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