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Slim Shady vs. Dubya Slim Shady vs. Dubya

It sounds like a Texas wrestling match: Slim vs Dubya. But in a recent poll that asked about truthfulness, rapper Eminem scored higher than President Bush. According to a global ...

Aug 18, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A Form of Looting A Form of Looting

George Akerlof is becoming a household name. Well, sort of. The 2001 Nobel Prize Laureate for Economics, who teaches at Berkeley, was recently cited by Al Gore in his rousing spe...

Aug 17, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The 2003 Blackout The 2003 Blackout

Electricity has now been restored across much of the northeast region of Canada and the United States, but officials are urging consumers and businesses to conserve electricity t...

Aug 16, 2003 / Peter Rothberg

Shrill and Unstable Fox Shrill and Unstable Fox

Even in this summer of political circuses (think California recall), Fox News Network's lawsuit against comedian and author Al Franken may win the silly season award. Lawy...

Aug 13, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

For Democrats, Mr. Right is Mr. Wrong For Democrats, Mr. Right is Mr. Wrong

Anyone who has spent time on the 2004 Democratic presidential campaign trail is familiar with the phrase "Except Lieberman." When grassroots Democrats gather to talk about the cro...

Aug 5, 2003 / John Nichols

Taking Back the Tax Debate Taking Back the Tax Debate

Maybe it's the summer heat, but I thought I was hallucinating when I picked up Monday's Washington Post and read the headline, "Democrats Not Shying Away from Tax Talk." It s...

Aug 1, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Parenting in 2003 Parenting in 2003

On the eve of the Clinton Impeachment hearings in 1998, The Sexuality Information and Education Council (SIECUS) sent out "Ten Tips for Talking about the Starr Report with Your C...

Jul 31, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Diplomat Who Resigned in Protest The Diplomat Who Resigned in Protest

Remember diplomat John Brady Kiesling's powerful resignation statement last February? Kiesling, who was serving as political counselor at the US Embassy in Athens, played a n...

Jul 31, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Who’s ‘Dangerously Irresponsible’? Who’s ‘Dangerously Irresponsible’?

Calling them "dangerously irresponsible," US District Judge Robert Blackburn last week sentenced three nuns to prison for up to three years for swinging a hammer at a Minuteman I...

Jul 31, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Fried Rice? Fried Rice?

Sunday's front page Washington Post story about National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is such a powerful indictment of her role in the runup to the Iraq war that for the s...

Jul 29, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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