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Rolling Thunder Takes Off Rolling Thunder Takes Off

Dennis Vegas is an unlikely campaigner against corporate excess. Even decked out in casual Friday attire, he still looks like what he used to be -- a vice president for marketing...

Mar 23, 2002 / John Nichols

Illinois Outsider Hollers His Way In Illinois Outsider Hollers His Way In

Last summer, former Illinois state Treasurer Pat Quinn took a 167-mile stroll across the state of Illinois to promote an amendment to the state Constitution that would establish t...

Mar 22, 2002 / John Nichols

Stealth Vouchers Stealth Vouchers

While most of the media focused, with good reason, on the huge increase in military spending and dramatic cuts in domestic programs in President Bush's $2.1 trillion budget propos...

Mar 22, 2002 / Feature / Bill Berkowitz

Sullivan’s Travails Sullivan’s Travails

On Andrew Sullivan.

Mar 21, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

Letters Letters

'CREEPS' ON PARADE Lakeview, Ore. Wonderful to read David Corn on the return of all the creeps from contra ["Iran/Contra Rehab," March 11]. As a combat vet...

Mar 21, 2002 / Our Readers

Contractions Contractions

It all began with a missing sheet of homework. "Contractions," my son had written very clearly in his assignment log. "What's this?" I asked when he announced he'd finished every...

Mar 21, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

In Cold Type In Cold Type

The new Daedalus is out. I have to admit to having not read Daedalus with much fervor in the past, say, fifteen years (well, if ever, to be honest), but I was curious about the ve...

Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

2002 Remake of Boys’ Town 2002 Remake of Boys’ Town

He ain't heavy, Father, he's my brother. I can take him by myself from here. Also, after what we've all been reading, We don't like to have you priests too near.

Mar 21, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Thunderstruck on the Right Thunderstruck on the Right

My sister-in-law, a historian and researcher in alternative medicine, once told me of a doctoral dissertation she'd happened across in which the writer interviewed a number of com...

Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Michael Tomasky

Feeding the Hungry Feeding the Hungry

When Bill Clinton signed the welfare overhaul in 1996, he and his supporters promised that its problems could be fixed later. One problem at the top of the list was the bill's sav...

Mar 21, 2002 / David Sarasohn

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