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All That Jazz All That Jazz

Let's cut to the chase on Ken Burns's Jazz, which rolled out on PBS January 8, by invoking Wallace Stevens. 1) Is it entertaining TV? Mostly, in PBS fashion. ...

Jan 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

The Man From Elroy The Man From Elroy

To a degree that's hard to appreciate outside Wisconsin, Tommy Thompson's impending move to Washington to become Secretary of Health and Human Services will transform this state'...

Jan 12, 2001 / Feature / Joel Rogers

Circus Maximus Circus Maximus

We're sorry, but we do not have permission to present this article on our website. It is an excerpt from Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World (Metropolitan). © ...

Jan 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Eduardo Galeano

The Right Stuff The Right Stuff

It was one of those odd little paragraphs that leap out at you, so filled with unexpected images it was. "What would Al Sharpton do if Bush calls him?" inquired Peter Noel in a r...

Jan 11, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

On Passing Up Marc Racicot for Attorney General in Favor of John Ashcroft On Passing Up Marc Racicot for Attorney General in Favor of John Ashcroft

This Racicot seemed like Bush's sort of guy: Pro-life, he thought that killers ought to fry. Though right-wing to the core in many ways, He was, the Christian right said, soft...

Jan 11, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin

No Friend of the Farmer No Friend of the Farmer

The fierce farm crisis that is ravaging rural America garnered scant attention during the 2000 presidential campaign, so it came as no surprise that President-elect George W. Bus...

Jan 11, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols

Labor’s Fight Has Just Begun Labor’s Fight Has Just Begun

In the end, Linda Chavez undid her own nomination through her disingenuousness. Bush's first nominee as Labor Secretary withdrew after a storm of publicity about her relationship...

Jan 11, 2001 / Feature / David Moberg

Teaching Test-Taking? Teaching Test-Taking?

The establishment verdict is in: President-elect Bush made an astute choice by tapping Rod Paige, Houston's School Superintendent, to head his Education Department. The New York ...

Jan 11, 2001 / Feature / Stephen Metcalf

Rumsfeld: Star Warrior Returns Rumsfeld: Star Warrior Returns

The surprise selection of Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary provides a clear signal of President-elect George W. Bush's intent to transform radically the military policy of th...

Jan 11, 2001 / Feature / Michael T. Klare

Whitman: A Toxic Choice Whitman: A Toxic Choice

When W. gave the nod to New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman for the top EPA spot in his administration, the tone-deaf national press corps praised the appointment of a "mod...

Jan 11, 2001 / Feature / Doug Ireland

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