‘The First Environmentalists’ ‘The First Environmentalists’
For thirty years, since the publication of Silent Spring and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the growth of the environmental movement has been fueled with sorrow for the decimatio...
Jan 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Mindy Pennybacker
The Last Job Ashcroft Should Be Given Is AG The Last Job Ashcroft Should Be Given Is AG
That John Ashcroft is a right-wing, pro-gun religious fanatic who laments the civil rights gains of the past decades and believes that leaders of the pro-slavery Southern Confede...
Jan 16, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Of Scientists and Spies Of Scientists and Spies
After thirty years spent building the Federation of American Scientists into one of the country's most valuable and venerable institutional voices for peace, democracy and real s...
Jan 13, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
Gay Teens Fight Back Gay Teens Fight Back
Jared Nayfack was 11 years old and living in the heart of conservative Orange County, California, when he told his best friend from school that he was gay--"and my friend then ca...
Jan 13, 2000 / Feature / Doug Ireland
You Can’t Be a Moderate and Pick Ashcroft for Justice You Can’t Be a Moderate and Pick Ashcroft for Justice
Senate Democrats must save George W. Bush from his scarier self. They must reject the appointment of John Ashcroft as attorney general, an appointment that gives the extreme ri...
Jan 9, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Home Discomforts Home Discomforts
Isn't it curious how often the policy disaster that is posited as the thing that will never happen takes place within minutes?
Jan 6, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Who Owns the Fourth Estate? Who Owns the Fourth Estate?
Dentists and cardiologists warn their patients about plaque, harmful to both teeth and arteries.
Jan 6, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano
Brownout at School Brownout at School
The Color of School Reform represents the kind of scholarship that by rights should influence the design of smart policy.
Jan 6, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp
A Far-Right Nominee Who’s All Wrong A Far-Right Nominee Who’s All Wrong
How ironic that Ashcroft's supporters now ask that he be treated with kid gloves during his own nomination hearings.
Jan 2, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
The ‘Single Standard’ in Kosovo The ‘Single Standard’ in Kosovo
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Dec 15, 1999 / Christopher Hitchens and Noam Chomsky