Articles

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

Trading With the Enemy Trading With the Enemy

Multinationals, their intellectual coverings shredded, are love-bombing labor while hunting for new fig leaves.

Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / William Greider

Whodunit–the Media? Whodunit–the Media?

It's easy to blame cartoons for gun-toting kids. But the truth isn't so tidy.

Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / Maggie Cutler

The Old Man and the CIA: A Kennedy Plot to Kill Castro? The Old Man and the CIA: A Kennedy Plot to Kill Castro?

New evidence of a CIA scheme to use Ernest Hemingway's Cuban farm.

Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / David Corn and Gus Russo

The Black-White Wealth Gap The Black-White Wealth Gap

Net worth, more than any other statistic, shows the depth of racial inequality.

Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / Dalton Conley

Dinner Theater Dinner Theater

When I taught at Ted Bundy's alma mater, one student wrote this report: "He was our babysitter. He was not a very nice babysitter. He would play games and scare us and then say th...

Mar 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo

Charity for All Charity for All

President George W. Bush's effort to repeal the estate tax has revealed contradictions in the nonprofit sector and confusion about what it values and where it stands.

Mar 6, 2001 / Mark Rosenman

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