What’s Wrong With This Picture? What’s Wrong With This Picture?
The rise of the media cartel has been a long time coming. The cultural effects are not new in kind, but the problem has become considerably larger.
Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Mark Crispin Miller
Posting Ideas Posting Ideas
To keep the press free, Ben Franklin made sure that periodicals once got preferential treatment from the USPS. It's time to revisit that idea again.
Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Victor Navasky
Unfriendly Skies Unfriendly Skies
The FAA, which had long ignored airlines' requests for help with unruly passengers, is now relying on those same airlines' apparent racial profiling when deciding who gets ...
Dec 20, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
Stossel’s Heroes Stossel’s Heroes
John Stossel has a conservative stable of pundits when it come to his questionable reporting of evironmental issues.
Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Mark Dowie
The Right in the Classroom The Right in the Classroom
Right-wing climate-change deniers worked hand-in-glove with John Stossel to portray schoolchild as being 'scared green' on a recent ABC special.
Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Marianne Manilov
Executive Obstruction Executive Obstruction
The Bush administration's insistence on secrecy in the Whitey Bulger case raises some unsettling questions.
Dec 19, 2001 / Feature / Bruce Shapiro
Secularism Unlocks the Door to Stability Secularism Unlocks the Door to Stability
In rebuilding Afghanistan, lessons should be learned from Turkey and Egypt when it comes to the separation of church and state.
Dec 18, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer
National Security? National Security?
Israel must decide if it wants a Jewish homeland in Palestine, or all of Palestine as a Jewish state.
Dec 13, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Press Watch Press Watch
Seymore Hersh has had a string of scoops since September 11, laying bare the covert community's skulduggery. Now, though, it seems he's toeing the government's line in ...
Dec 13, 2001 / Michael Massing
Pennies in the Hat Pennies in the Hat
Christmas can be a consumeristic orgy, but consider some gift-giving alternatives to improve the world.
Dec 13, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt