Bush and Andersen’s Texas Two-Step

George W. Bush must be feeling an acute sense of déjà vu these days, as the dubious dealings of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, LLP take center stage in the Enron scandal.

Chris Floyd

Disabling a Civil Right

The Supreme Court has made a decision that is wrongheaded, and wrong.

Mary Johnson

Enron on the Hill

For weeks, conservative commentators and Bush White House defenders have been huffing that the Enron matter is a corporate scandal, not a political controversy–that it is an affair of business sku

David Corn

Enron: Crony Capitalism

The Editors

The Sinking of the USS Enron–A Free-Market Metaphor

The pirate ship has sunk beneath the waves.
The swabs who haven’t gone to wat’ry graves
Row desperately, though all of them now know
Their water and their food are running low.
They row their wretched boats and curse their lot.
Receding in the distance is a yacht
That carries all their officers, who knew
The ship was doomed but didn’t tell the crew.
The officers stand tall. They saw their duty:
Desert the ship by night and take the booty.

Calvin Trillin

Crime in the Suites

There are more Enrons out there; the rot is systemic.

William Greider

GE and the Hudson

The Editors

You Mean, We Won Something?

With developments in the Mumia Abu-Jamal case and Pacifica's re-emergence, the left has a couple of victories under its belt; the Enron scandal develops further.

Alexander Cockburn

Connect the Enron Dots to Bush

The connections between Enron and the Bush administration run deep—and they should be investigated.

Robert Scheer

Enron’s Rise and Fall

Enron's collapse is a perfect illustration of deregulation and capitalism without a conscience.

William Greider