Iran/Contra Rehab Iran/Contra Rehab
The Bush Administration is turning into one big rehab center for the Iran/contra schemers of the Reagan/Bush White House. The latest case involves retired Adm. John Poindexter, w...
Feb 21, 2002 / David Corn
Bush’s War in Afghanistan: A Case of Big Mission Creep? Bush’s War in Afghanistan: A Case of Big Mission Creep?
Did the United States recently engage in an illegal act of war? On February 19, "The New York Times" placed on its front page a story headlined, "In...
Feb 20, 2002 / David Corn
Post-Campaign Reform Reform Post-Campaign Reform Reform
Hurray for campaign finance reform--well, kind of.
Feb 14, 2002 / Feature / David Corn
US Mis-strikes in Afghanistan: Accidents or Possible War Crimes? US Mis-strikes in Afghanistan: Accidents or Possible War Crimes?
Have US forces in Afghanistan engaged in war crimes? That's a provocative question, the sort of query that few, if any, reporters at the Pentagon br...
Feb 13, 2002 / David Corn
Why the Right Loves Bush Why the Right Loves Bush
It was the start of another Conservative Political Action Conference--the annual gathering of several thousand activists--and Republican Party chairman Marc Racicot, in unexcitin...
Feb 7, 2002 / David Corn
US Commandos Kill Innocents, CIA Pays Off Kin–A Model Program? US Commandos Kill Innocents, CIA Pays Off Kin–A Model Program?
Two months ago, I wrote a piece for the "The Los Angeles Times" proposing that Afghan civilians who had lost relatives, limbs, homes and businesses due to e...
Feb 7, 2002 / David Corn
Bush and Lay: A Common Pattern of Stock Dumps? Bush and Lay: A Common Pattern of Stock Dumps?
I had hoped to be reporting in this space today the answers of disgraced Enron CEO Ken Lay to a host of impolite questions. As you might have heard, Lay wa...
Feb 4, 2002 / David Corn
Bush’s Untouchable State of the Union Bush’s Untouchable State of the Union
He sure didn't leave the Democrats much room to maneuver. When George W. Bush delivered his first State of the Union address--a two-ply speech divided bet...
Jan 30, 2002 / David Corn
Enron on the Hill Enron on the Hill
For weeks, conservative commentators and Bush White House defenders have been huffing that the Enron matter is a corporate scandal, not a political controversy--that it is an affai...
Jan 24, 2002 / Feature / David Corn