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Asbestos Liability Scam Asbestos Liability Scam

The Senate will soon consider the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act (FAIR) that is anything but for the workers whose health has been impaired by asbestos. It's a move by ...

Oct 20, 2005 / Editorial / William Johnson and Kate Levin

No Privilege for Miers No Privilege for Miers

Harriet Miers's slender public record makes it imperative that her advice the president on personal, executive and constitutional matters be fully disclosed to the Senate Judiciary...

Oct 20, 2005 / Editorial / Stephen Gillers

A Misguided Crusade A Misguided Crusade

The New York Times exposes its own misguided and unethical campaign to make a terrible reporter a First Amendment saint.

Oct 19, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer

How Liberia Held ‘Free’ Elections How Liberia Held ‘Free’ Elections

Votes are now being counted in the first truly free election in Liberia's troubled history. It's a far cry from the 1986 election, which dictatorial Samuel Doe fraudulently "won" b...

Oct 13, 2005 / Feature / Michael Massing

If Not Miers, Who? If Not Miers, Who?

Dear Karl Rove: Just in case Harriet Miers doesn't work out, why not nominate me?

Oct 13, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Reassuring the Right Reassuring the Right

Though her style is not dramatic, Harriet Miers is definitely enough of a fanatic to sit on the Bush Supreme Court.

Oct 13, 2005 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Scamming the States Scamming the States

Companies like Boeing, Dell and Daimler-Chrysler know how to extort tax cuts and subsidies from states eager to keep jobs from fleeing. But taxpayers, community groups and even a S...

Oct 13, 2005 / Editorial / Greg LeRoy

Torture on the Hill Torture on the Hill

War crimes are the darkest expression of the moral degradation that permeates the White House. Bush's threat to veto the Senate's anti-torture measure frames a crisis of law and le...

Oct 13, 2005 / Editorial / The Editors

Spreading the Dough Spreading the Dough

How can the left build a new majority? EMILY's List has a big piece of the answer.

Oct 12, 2005 / Feature / Ruth Conniff

Protest and Pushback on Campus Protest and Pushback on Campus

Student protests against the presence of military recruiters on campus are on the rise. So are angry--sometimes violent--pushbacks from conservative students and campus police.

Oct 12, 2005 / Editorial / Ryan Grim

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