Articles

An Out-of-Control Court An Out-of-Control Court

Unchastened by the widespread denunciation of their election decisions, the Supreme Court's conservative bloc seems determined to continue using its one-vote majority to ram throu...

Mar 8, 2001 / Herman Schwartz

The Beat The Beat

VOTE FOR THE UNION LABEL While plotting his campaign for mayor of Los Angeles, former California Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa said, "We will only succeed if we can pull to...

Mar 8, 2001 / Column / John Nichols

In Fact… In Fact…

PAYBACK AND ROLLBACK TIME FOR LABOR It's grimly appropriate that the legislative weapon Senate Republicans (joined by six anti-labor Democrats) used to kill OSHA's ergonomics regu...

Mar 8, 2001 / The Editors

Kodak’s Nazi Connections Kodak’s Nazi Connections

New information recently uncovered at the National Archives reveals that subsidiaries of the Eastman Kodak company traded with Nazi Germany long after America had entered the war....

Mar 8, 2001 / John S. Friedman

Pardons in Perspective Pardons in Perspective

We learned a few things from Dan Burton's hearings into the Clinton pardons. We learned that Bill Clinton's pardon of billionaire expatriate Marc Rich was no last-minute rush job....

Mar 8, 2001 / The Editors

Our Presidential Libraries Our Presidential Libraries

Allegations that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich partly in return for donations to his presidential library have raised questions about the value of such institutions and the...

Mar 8, 2001 / Robert Dallek

Name the President! Name the President!

There were so many brilliant entries to our Name the President Contest that our judges were hard pressed to choose the winning five. (Up to the February 19 deadline the count was ...

Mar 8, 2001 / The Editors

What Are Spies For? What Are Spies For?

The air now quivers with gloomy assessments of the secrets "compromised" by the FBI's Robert Hanssen, a senior official who stands accused of working for the Russians since 1985....

Mar 8, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

When Ignorance Is Bliss When Ignorance Is Bliss

I have eaten more than my share of Whoppers in my forty-one years. As a teenager I liked them so much I'd worry about whether I could afford another one while still eating the fi...

Mar 8, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman

Deconstructing the Election Deconstructing the Election

The history which bears and determines us has the form of a war rather than that of a language: relations of power, not relations of meaning.       ...

Mar 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Win McCormack

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