In Fact… In Fact…
MCCARTHYISM ALIVE AND WELL IN NH New Hampshire State Senator Burt Cohen thought that putting up a plaque honoring the Abraham Lincoln Brigade would provide a history lesson about...
Mar 1, 2001 / The Editors
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
LIBERTÉ, EGALITÉ, FÉMINISME "Feminism...is the most popular and most effective movement to emerge from the sixties left," writes Katha Pollitt in her introdu...
Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Confronting Iraq Confronting Iraq
George W. Bush's description of the US-British bombing of Iraq as a "routine mission" unwittingly summed up the mechanical nature of the US-British air operations in Iraq, which...
Feb 23, 2001 / The Editors
In Fact… In Fact…
NAME THE PRESIDENT UPDATE Our contest to pick a title for George W. Bush, the present occupant of the White House, has evidently touched a nerve. Hundreds of cards, letters and e...
Feb 15, 2001 / The Editors
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
REFORM CANDIDATE "Of reconsiderations of Western socialism, there is no end," Norman Birnbaum writes cheekily at the opening of his new book--and immediately sets out to show us (...
Feb 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Power Lines Power Lines
As George W. Bush so fuzzily put it, "The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating ...
Feb 15, 2001 / The Editors
Ashcroft’s Brand of Justice Ashcroft’s Brand of Justice
John Ashcroft's new leadership of the Department of Justice signals hard tomes for come in the United States.
Feb 8, 2001 / The Editors
In Fact… In Fact…
Christos Papoutsakis denied visa, Dr. James Pendergraft found guilty, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Ralph Nader. Christos Papoutsakis Christos Papoutsakis
Feb 8, 2001 / The Editors
Ashcroft’s Brand of Justice Ashcroft’s Brand of Justice
John Ashcroft took office swearing on a stack of Bibles--on three of them, actually, one for each of his children--to run "a professional Justice Department that is free from poli...
Feb 6, 2001 / The Editors
Dear Alan: Butt Out Dear Alan: Butt Out
Political cross-dressing by the Democrats ended on January 25 in Washington when their erstwhile conservative patron, Alan Greenspan, abruptly jilted them. Under Bill Clinton's t...
Feb 1, 2001 / The Editors