Scalia’s Flawed Judgment Scalia’s Flawed Judgment
After weeks of critical editorials, embarrassing cartoons and late-night talk-show jokes, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia issued a twenty-one-page memorandum on March 18 to ...
Apr 1, 2004 / Stephen Gillers
Africa’s Oil Tycoons Africa’s Oil Tycoons
Western firms and government leaders, not the people, benefit from Angola's wealth.
Mar 25, 2004 / Feature / Daphne Eviatar
Whatever It Takes Whatever It Takes
Exxon has used the legal system to avoid paying damages for the Valdez spill.
Mar 18, 2004 / Feature / Ashley Shelby
Three Mile Island Three Mile Island
On the morning of September 11, 2001, after the second plane hit the World Trade Center and it was clear that the nation was under attack, US authorities issued an emergency aler...
Mar 18, 2004 / Mark Hertsgaard
Saving the Environment Saving the Environment
This article is adapted from Carl Pope and Paul Rauber's forthcoming Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress (...
Feb 19, 2004 / Feature / Paul Rauber and Carl Pope
The Junk Science of George W. Bush The Junk Science of George W. Bush
It's more fiction than fact.
Feb 19, 2004 / Feature / Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Ralph Nader Replies: Whither The Nation? Ralph Nader Replies: Whither The Nation?
The following letter is a response to "An Open Letter to Ralph Nader," which appeared in the February 16 issue.
Feb 19, 2004 / Ralph Nader and The Editors
A New Ice Age? A New Ice Age?
George W. Bush may not know it, but one influential part of his government is finally taking global climate change seriously.
Feb 12, 2004 / Mark Hertsgaard
The Once-Green GOP The Once-Green GOP
"The environment is probably the single issue on which Republicans in general--and President Bush in particular--are most vulnerable." So asserted Frank Luntz, a leading Republic...
Jan 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mark Hertsgaard
The Battle for Iraqi Oil The Battle for Iraqi Oil
Until there is a legitimate government in Iraq, it's unclear whether any new oil deals will stand.
Jan 2, 2004 / Feature / Aram Roston