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Dems Roll Over, Film at 11 Dems Roll Over, Film at 11

As in a paranoid novel by Don DeLillo, it all comes together in the end. The Democrats can't stand up to Bush on Iraq because they're afraid of looking soft on terrorism and Sa...

Oct 10, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Going Down the Road Going Down the Road

Out in the countryside is where you'll find America's true leaders--the gutsy, scrappy, sometimes scruffy and always ingenious grassroots agitators and organizers who go right ...

Oct 10, 2002 / Jim Hightower

A Chickenhawk Cheer A Chickenhawk Cheer

Bomb 'em now, kill 'em now, zim, boom, bah Chickenhawks, chickenhawks, rah, rah, rah. Vietnam reverberates. (We were rooting from the States.)

Oct 10, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

In Fact… In Fact…

SHERIFF SHEILA?

Oct 10, 2002 / The Editors

The Dangerous Restaurant The Dangerous Restaurant

I was having dinner at a rather expensive restaurant the other night when a man I'd never met before threatened to kill me. He was a distinguished-looking fellow, dressed in a ...

Oct 10, 2002 / Wallace Shawn

Blood for Oil Blood for Oil

In May 2001, the White House issued a National Energy Policy report, known as the Cheney Report: the state of our national oil reserves. In 2000, half the oil we consumed was impor...

Oct 10, 2002 / Gore Vidal

Welfare’s True Colors Welfare’s True Colors

With the 1996 welfare law expiring this fall, Congressmembers would do well to stop congratulating themselves on its alleged successes and turn their attention to the glaring f...

Oct 10, 2002 / Gary Delgado and Menachem Krajcer

US Double Standards US Double Standards

The effort by the Bush Administration and Congress to portray the planned invasion of Iraq as simply an effort to enforce United Nations Security Council resolutions reaches a ...

Oct 10, 2002 / Stephen Zunes

Lula’s Back in Town Lula’s Back in Town

On October 6 Brazilian voters propelled Workers' Party candidate Luiz Inácio da Silva, or "Lula," as he is known, one step closer to the presidency of the second-most-po...

Oct 10, 2002 / Mark Weisbrot

Ashcroft, Unabashed Ashcroft, Unabashed

There you go again, Mr. Ashcroft.

Oct 10, 2002 / David Cole

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