Robert Scheer

Contributing Editor

Robert Scheer, a contributing editor to The Nation, is editor of Truthdig.com and author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street (Nation Books), The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America (Twelve) and Playing President (Akashic Books). He is author, with Christopher Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry, of The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq (Akashic Books and Seven Stories Press.) His weekly column, distributed by Creators Syndicate, appears in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Another Bankrupt Idea From Congress Another Bankrupt Idea From Congress

Thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbor by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

Jul 31, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Boom or Bush Cycle The Boom or Bush Cycle

The public's love affair with the Bush Administration is souring. Polls show that voters are deeply worried about its handling of the economy, although they still claim to like G...

Jul 23, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Cheney’s Grimy Trail in Business Cheney’s Grimy Trail in Business

Vice President Dick Cheney has spent most of the past year in hiding, ostensibly from terrorists, but increasingly it seems obvious that it is Congress, the Securities and Exchan...

Jul 17, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

A Fox Is About to Reassure Us Hens A Fox Is About to Reassure Us Hens

For President Bush to pretend to be shocked that some of the nation's top executives deal from a stacked deck is akin to a madam feigning surprise that sexual favors have been so...

Jul 9, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Values Fall Prey to Hypocrisy Values Fall Prey to Hypocrisy

For a long time now, we secular humanists and other skeptics have been denigrated as the apostles of decadence and social decay.

Jul 9, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

God’s Got Nothing to Do With the Pledge of Allegiance Furor God’s Got Nothing to Do With the Pledge of Allegiance Furor

Belief in God is not the issue in the continuing brouhaha over the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance. Rather, it's the government's endorsement of a monotheistic God.

Jul 2, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Bush Overplays the Terror Card Bush Overplays the Terror Card

Has the war on terrorism become the modern equivalent of the Roman Circus, drawing the people's attention away from the failures of those who rule them?

Jun 26, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Flicking Fallen Angels Off the Head of a Pin Flicking Fallen Angels Off the Head of a Pin

Never did I expect to feel sorrow and pity for the Catholic Church, yet I confess that I do.

Jun 19, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Arafat, by Feeding on Martyrdom, Dooms His People Arafat, by Feeding on Martyrdom, Dooms His People

Yasser Arafat should step aside.

Jun 13, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

We’ve Had Enough Witch Hunts We’ve Had Enough Witch Hunts

Nothing succeeds like failure.

Jun 4, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

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