A Fox Is About to Reassure Us Hens A Fox Is About to Reassure Us Hens
For President Bush to pretend to be shocked that some of the nation's top executives deal from a stacked deck is akin to a madam feigning surprise that sexual favors have been so...
Jul 9, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Political Cross-Dressing Political Cross-Dressing
SEC chairman Harvey Pitt lurches from lapdog to bulldog, threatening CEOs with jail time if their corporate reports mislead. George Bush demands "top floor" accountability. Republ...
Jul 3, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors
Karl Rove’s Legal Tricks Karl Rove’s Legal Tricks
Packing the judiciary with right-wingers like Priscilla Owen.
Jul 3, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols
School’s Out School’s Out
When the New York City Board of Education called on public schools to bring back the Pledge of Allegiance in the wake of 9/11, my daughter, a freshman at Stuyvesant High, thoug...
Jul 3, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Court’s Terrible Two The Court’s Terrible Two
Saving the worst for last, on the final day of the term the Supreme Court issued 5-to-4 rulings on school vouchers and drug testing that blow a huge hole in the wall of church-sta...
Jul 3, 2002 / Editorial / Herman Schwartz
On the Congressional Response to the ‘Under God’ Controversy On the Congressional Response to the ‘Under God’ Controversy
They pledge allegiance to the thought That every politician ought To take a stand that's foursquare for the Lord. They think if they say, "God is great! Don't separate him fr...
Jul 3, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Right Welfare Reform The Right Welfare Reform
It was bad enough that the Bush Administration co-opted the Children's Defense Fund slogan "Leave No Child Behind." Then the most famous former board member of CDF, Hillary Rodham...
Jul 3, 2002 / Editorial / Ruth Conniff
Paul Wellstone & the Greens Paul Wellstone & the Greens
Paul Wellstone & the Greens Northfield, Minn. I was shocked to open my Nation and read the ill-informed and superficial June 17 "Beat the Devil" column, "The Fut...
Jul 3, 2002 / Letters / Our Readers
Who’s Afraid of Cornel West? Who’s Afraid of Cornel West?
Writing in a forthcoming issue of The Journal of Israeli History about Israeli revisionism, Mark Lilla of the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought makes the obse...
Jun 27, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman