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Fighting Pickering Fighting Pickering

Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson says it's like this: If judicial nominee Charles Pickering is confirmed by a Democratic Senate, the Bush Administration will have a green ...

Feb 28, 2002 / John Nichols

Justice, Not So Swift Justice, Not So Swift

On October 31 Governor Jane Swift of Massachusetts pardoned five women who had been convicted and executed in the Salem witch trials in 1692. Well, better late than never--what's...

Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Tulsa’s Shame Tulsa’s Shame

Race riot victims still wait for promised reparations.

Feb 28, 2002 / Feature / Adrian Brune

H. Rap Brown/Jamil Al-Amin: A Profoundly American Story H. Rap Brown/Jamil Al-Amin: A Profoundly American Story

Die Nigger Die!, the autobiographical political memoir by H. Rap Brown, is a vital American historical document--historical almost in the sense of a message found in a time capsu...

Feb 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ekwueme Michael Thelwell

Big Media, Little Media Big Media, Little Media

The nation's largest media corporations are now poised to gain dramatically greater control over what Americans watch, listen to and read. A February 19 decision by the US Court ...

Feb 28, 2002 / The Editors

What’s God Got to Do With It? What’s God Got to Do With It?

God again!

Feb 26, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Interview with Senator Jon Corzine Interview with Senator Jon Corzine

Corzine: You set the right context.

Feb 21, 2002 / Feature / William Greider

A Stealth Attack on Freedom of the Press A Stealth Attack on Freedom of the Press

The Federal Communications Commission is presently conducting an inquiry--a "rulemaking"--to determine whether to relax, or even to eliminate, the remaining few regulations that ...

Feb 21, 2002 / Feature / Robert W. McChesney and Mark Crispin Miller

Unhappy Anniversary Unhappy Anniversary

The McLaughlin Group is about to "celebrate" its twentieth anniversary. We might as well "celebrate" the discovery of anthrax. The show flatters itself--and its corporate ...

Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

Evil: The Quadruple Axel Evil: The Quadruple Axel

The hoofprints of Lucifer are everywhere. And since this is America, eternally at war with the darker forces, the foremost Enemy Within is sex, no quarter given. Here are some bu...

Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

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