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Scrub Helps Shrub Scrub Helps Shrub

Florida purged its voter rolls, thanks in part to a web of corporate players.

Jan 18, 2001 / Feature / Greg Palast

Florida’s ‘Disappeared Voters’: Disfranchised by the GOP Florida’s ‘Disappeared Voters’: Disfranchised by the GOP

Thousands of citizens can't register or have been wrongly thrown off the rolls.

Jan 18, 2001 / Feature / Greg Palast

The Crackdown on Dissent The Crackdown on Dissent

Police are up to old tricks: disrupting and spying on legal political activities.

Jan 18, 2001 / Feature / Abby Scher

Did Ashcroft Take the Low Road on the Highroad? Did Ashcroft Take the Low Road on the Highroad?

When George W.

Jan 15, 2001 / Feature / David Corn and Dan Moldea

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

No Nukes=Better Health No Nukes=Better Health

There wasn't much good news to report from the year 2000, but topping the list in health terms was the long-overdue final shutdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power station on Decem...

Jan 12, 2001 / Harvey Wasserman

Bush’s Black Faces Bush’s Black Faces

Many of George Bush's supporters say that his recent nominations of Colin Powell as Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice as National Security Adviser and Rod Paige as Secretary o...

Jan 11, 2001 / Michael Eric Dyson

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

The Clinton Era by the Numbers The Clinton Era by the Numbers

Far more federal investigators. Many more prosecutions of illegal immigrants. The continuing dominant role of the war on drugs. A decreasing emphasis on white-collar crime. More ...

Jan 11, 2001 / Feature / David Burnham and Susan Long

Bush’s Hammer Bush’s Hammer

House GOP whip Tom DeLay will do his best to pull the President to the right.

Jan 5, 2001 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss

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