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Schröder Beats Bush Schröder Beats Bush

The first 2002 election campaign in which George W. Bush's desire to attack Iraq became a major issue did not involve Republicans and Democrats. It was not even held in the United...

Sep 23, 2002 / John Nichols

Bush Stonewalls on Pre-9/ll Knowledge Bush Stonewalls on Pre-9/ll Knowledge

The scene: a hut somewhere near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Al Qaeda Terrorist Number One: I have good news to report. Al Qaeda Ter...

Sep 20, 2002 / David Corn

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

THE WHITE APPLES. By Jonathan Carroll. Oxford. 384 pp pp. $$24.95.

Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley

Perception of Doors Perception of Doors

Tom Waits and others cheer The Doors' drummer, John Densmore, for not selling out to the corporations.

Sep 19, 2002 / Our Readers

High Noon: The Rewrite High Noon: The Rewrite

On September 17, PBS aired Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents. On the surface, this documentary is a posthumous homage to a worthy blacklisted screenwriter.

Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ed Rampell

Buffoonery of the Mundane Buffoonery of the Mundane

"Felisberto Hernández is a writer like no other," Italo Calvino announced once, "like no European, nor any Latin American.

Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans

Keeping the Faith Keeping the Faith

That the abused child will defend its parent is no arcane phenomenon of child psychology--hell, we've seen it on Law and Order.

Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson

Web Journalism’s Sticky Pages Web Journalism’s Sticky Pages

Legendary New York Times obit writer Alden Whitman once observed, "Death, the cliché assures us, is the great leveler; but it obviously levels some a great deal more tha...

Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Tatiana Siegel

Just Asking… Just Asking…

Shortly after September 11, Dan Rather--or "El Diablo" as he is known to conservatives--appeared on Letterman and announced, "George Bush is the President, he makes the decisio...

Sep 19, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

Infallible Justice Infallible Justice

I saw a puzzling banner on the door of a restaurant the other day. It was a flag flanked by two aphorisms: God bless America and America bless God.

Sep 19, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

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