The Wind She Blows The Wind She Blows
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," some sage once wrote. Just so. As this issue went to press, the Museum of International Folk Art, a state-run insti...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Art Winslow
Bush’s New Gas Guzzler Bush’s New Gas Guzzler
George W. Bush's energy plan fudges the facts, raises false alarms, shamelessly peddles halfhearted green measures--all to provide a cover under which to slide the oil industry's ...
May 25, 2001 / The Editors
De-Foucaulding the GOP De-Foucaulding the GOP
De-Foucaulding the GOP New York City Win McCormack's sophisticated examination of conservative tactics in the last election was fascinating ["Deconstructing the...
May 25, 2001 / Win McCormack and Our Readers
The Jeffords Jump The Jeffords Jump
"What do we do now?" That famous last line of the 1972 film The Candidate, in which Robert Redford finds himself--to his surprise--elected to the Senate, should be on the minds of...
May 25, 2001 / David Corn
In Fact… In Fact…
MONUMENTALISM ON THE MALL Jon Wiener writes: The week the movie Pearl Harbor opened, Congress and the President ordered construction to begin on the proposed World War II Memoria...
May 25, 2001 / The Editors
Conservatism as Phoenix Conservatism as Phoenix
You want to find out why politics has become so dreary? You won't find the answer in Rick Perlstein's book. But what you will find is relief. I've read Before the Storm twice and ...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Robert Sherrill
The Jeffords Jump The Jeffords Jump
"What do we do now?" That famous last line of the 1972 film The Candidate, in which Robert Redford finds himself--to his surprise--elected to the Senate, should be on the minds of...
May 23, 2001 / David Corn
Tax Cut Madness Tax Cut Madness
If all goes as the GOP has planned, George W. Bush will have on his desk by Memorial Day a $1.35 trillion tax bill that is wrongheaded and an utterly inequitable pander to the pri...
May 17, 2001 / The Editors
The First 2,920 Days The First 2,920 Days
I was driving my son to soccer practice not long ago, listening to a National Public Radio wrap-up of President Bush's first hundred days in office. My son, who was just a baby w...
May 17, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Beauty and Sadness Beauty and Sadness
A tidal wave is coming. Soon I am sure. It will sweep all of us away. --The opening lines of Eureka One of the more familiar works of Japane...
May 17, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson