Dean’s No Wellstone Dean’s No Wellstone
Lately, presidential contender Howard Dean has been likening himself to the late Senator Paul Wellstone.
May 8, 2003 / Jim Farrell
Brezhnev, Bush and Baghdad Brezhnev, Bush and Baghdad
Many Russians who fled Brezhnev's USSR because they could not speak freely are in a state of shock in today's America. One is Roman Kaplan, an intellectual from Leningrad (now ...
May 5, 2003 / Feature / Nina Khrushcheva
Inverted Totalitarianism Inverted Totalitarianism
How the Bush regime is effecting the transformation to a fascist-like state.
May 1, 2003 / Feature / Sheldon Wolin
Axing Higher Ed Axing Higher Ed
One of the many casualties of our national obsession with the war on Iraq is the emerging crisis of America's public colleges and universities.
May 1, 2003 / Stanley Aronowitz
Stand and Fight Stand and Fight
Compare the following two statements currently floating 'round the blogosphere:
May 1, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman
Are We Numb or Dumb? Are We Numb or Dumb?
Forget truth. That is the message from our government and its apologists in the media who insist that the Iraq invasion is a great success story even though it was based on a lie...
Apr 29, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Rumsfeld’s Untidy World Rumsfeld’s Untidy World
On April 11th--the day of the most widespread and uncontrolled looting in Iraq--Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld produced one of the more sour notes of the nascent postwar perio...
Apr 25, 2003 / Feature / Jonathan Miller
Hammering Down I-25 Hammering Down I-25
It's a great country. Don't let the hucksters and charlatans take it away.
Apr 24, 2003 / Feature / James Lee Burke
The Republican Party’s Goal Is to Destroy the Federal Government The Republican Party’s Goal Is to Destroy the Federal Government
For years, their driving ambition has been to get government “down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”
Apr 24, 2003 / Feature / William Greider
Did Bush Deceive Us in His Rush to War? Did Bush Deceive Us in His Rush to War?
Now that the war has been won, is it permissible to suggest that our emperor has no clothes?
Apr 23, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer