Kissinger, Quayle, Gingrich and Perle on a Lie Detector? Kissinger, Quayle, Gingrich and Perle on a Lie Detector?
Will the Pentagon wire up Henry Kissinger, Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich--that is, submit them to lie detector tests? And do the same with all other members ...
Aug 7, 2002 / David Corn
Dingell clout trumps Rivers; women nominated for governorships Dingell clout trumps Rivers; women nominated for governorships
After an often bitter, intensely ideological Michigan primary contest that pitted two of the most politically and personally distinct Democrats in Congress, U.S. Rep. John Dingell...
Aug 7, 2002 / John Nichols
Weighing a Just War, or Settling an Old Score? Weighing a Just War, or Settling an Old Score?
In a column from 2002, Robert Scheer takes a look back at the Bush Administrations's real motivation to go to war.
Aug 6, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
W. and the Coal Miners: Photo-op Cover for Anti-worker Policies W. and the Coal Miners: Photo-op Cover for Anti-worker Policies
George W. Bush is crass. Before heading to Texas for a month of vacation--longer than the average worker's--the President stopped at the local fire ...
Aug 6, 2002 / David Corn
Secret Arrests Are an Odious Concept Secret Arrests Are an Odious Concept
Following the September 11 attacks, the federal government rounded up more than 1,000 people and detained them without revealing their identities.
Aug 5, 2002 / The Editors
Senate Hearings Expose Lack of Consensus on Iraq War Senate Hearings Expose Lack of Consensus on Iraq War
If there is a point to having a Congress in a time of war, it has been made this week by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on whether the United States could, should...
Aug 2, 2002 / John Nichols
Right & Gay & Like It That Way? Right & Gay & Like It That Way?
Right & Gay & Like It That Way? Provincetown, Mass. It was quite a surprise reading Richard Goldstein's latest attack on me and other non-leftist gay writers ["...
Aug 1, 2002 / Richard Goldstein and Andrew Sullivan
In Cold Type In Cold Type
It seems a long time ago that I stocked my pantry (pantry is a concept in Manhattan, not a reality) with two weeks' worth of emergency food (including powdered milk, an oddly c...
Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney Lecture CEOs on Corporate Responsibility George W. Bush and Dick Cheney Lecture CEOs on Corporate Responsibility
"Creative accounting" is something we hate. From now on your numbers will have to be straight. No taking of options for stock you contrive To dump when insiders can tell it wi...
Aug 1, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Israel, There and Here Israel, There and Here
Refugee camp invasions. Suicide bombers. House demolitions. Suicide bombers. Arrests of children, curfews, roadblocks, collective punishments, dropping one-ton bombs on densely...
Aug 1, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt