Political Figures

You Can Use God to Justify Anything You Can Use God to Justify Anything

The country was founded on the idea of keeping religion and politics separate--but you'd hardly know this by the way the idea of the Almighty has intruded itself into political...

Aug 21, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer

What I Voted For What I Voted For

Nader's campaign made a lot of people angry, but his cause is worth the fight.

Jul 27, 2001 / Feature / Tim Robbins

A Bush Summer Rerun? A Bush Summer Rerun?

The next scene in Return of the Bushies may feature Brent Scowcroft, who was National Security Adviser to Bush I. The anonymous leakers of Washington are whispering that Scowcroft...

Jul 27, 2001 / David Corn

Raising the Stakes Raising the Stakes

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Jul 9, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro

Questions for Ashcroft Questions for Ashcroft

As the Senate begins its hearings on the nomination of John Ashcroft as Attorney General, it is important to focus on the different roles that his office plays in the administrati...

Jul 9, 2001 / Leon Friedman

Popping Dimples Popping Dimples

Will Al Gore become the Dimpled President?

Jul 9, 2001 / David Corn

Rove-r and Out? Rove-r and Out?

Maybe that Karl Rove ain't such a genius. In the past few weeks Democrats have, with a touch of glee, been wondering about George W. Bush's Svengali-strategist as Rove has stepped...

Jun 28, 2001 / David Corn

The Man From Alcoa The Man From Alcoa

Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill is turning out to be a dangerous crank.

Jun 28, 2001 / Feature / William Greider

Liberating Vieques Liberating Vieques

When George W. Bush announced from Sweden on June 14 that he planned to pull the US Navy out of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques by 2003, it struck some as odd when he referred ...

Jun 21, 2001 / Angelo Falcón

Elliott Abrams: It’s Back! Elliott Abrams: It’s Back!

"How would you feel if your wife and children were brutally raped before being hacked to death by soldiers during a military massacre of 800 civilians, and then two governments tr...

Jun 14, 2001 / David Corn

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