Let Them Eat Cake Let Them Eat Cake
The Bush budget cuts programs for the hungry.
Apr 21, 2005 / Trudy Lieberman
Backward Christian Soldiers Backward Christian Soldiers
Maybe, just maybe, the religious right and its Republican friends have finally gone too far with the Terri Schiavo case.
Mar 31, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Death, Depression and Prozac Death, Depression and Prozac
Jeff Weise, teen slayer of ten, including himself, at the Red Lake Indian reservation in northern Minnesota, was on Prozac, prescribed by some doc.
Mar 31, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Senator Bill Frist, a Thoracic Surgeon… Senator Bill Frist, a Thoracic Surgeon…
Who Made a Neurological Diagnosis of Terri Schiavo After Watching a Video of Her, Reports on a Physical Examination He's Done of Jeb Bush, His Potential Rival for the 2008 Rep...
Mar 31, 2005 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Schiavo Hypocrites The Schiavo Hypocrites
With their handling of the heart-wrenching Terri Schiavo case, George W. Bush and his Republican allies in tragedy exploitation were awash in the currency of Washington: hypocris...
Mar 24, 2005 / The Editors
Dirty Politics, Foul Air Dirty Politics, Foul Air
At Pittsburgh's Jefferson Elementary School, which overlooks the dark gray plumes from two electric power plants, there are so many children with asthma the school nurse alphabet...
Feb 24, 2005 / Rebecca Clarren
Life Without Health Insurance Life Without Health Insurance
Millions of young people are unprotected.
Feb 3, 2005 / Feature / Meredith Clark
Retirement Security Fight Retirement Security Fight
Call out the fifes, sound the bugles, strike on the drums. With the State of the Union behind us, the Battle for Social Security now officially begins--again.
Feb 3, 2005 / The Editors
Cancer, Chemicals and History Cancer, Chemicals and History
Companies try to discredit the experts.
Jan 20, 2005 / Feature / Jon Wiener
The Bush AIDS Machine The Bush AIDS Machine
Click here for info on Kaplan's With God on Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, and Democracy in George W. Bush's White House (New Press).
Dec 2, 2004 / Esther Kaplan