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Aug 12, 2004 / Column / Dr. Marc Siegel
PBS Adds Insult to Injury PBS Adds Insult to Injury
Click here to ask PBS CEO Patricia Mitchell to reconsider the network's new conservative slant. CORRECTION: The Dow Jones Corporation's total revenue (not profit) topped $1.5 bil...
Aug 12, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman
Bush, After Saying He’ll Cede Hollywood to the Democrats Because He Has the Regular People Behind Him, Sings a Song to That Effect, to the Tune of That Old Bush, After Saying He’ll Cede Hollywood to the Democrats Because He Has the Regular People Behind Him, Sings a Song to That Effect, to the Tune of That Old
Regular people, just plain working folks Always stood out in my eyes. I scorn all those people who drink wine instead Of eating Frito pies.
Aug 12, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin
One More Chalabi Black Eye One More Chalabi Black Eye
A close alliance between Iraq and the fanatical ayatollahs of Iran is the most likely accomplishment of the US invasion.
Aug 10, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
Kerry’s Past Is the Key to His Future Kerry’s Past Is the Key to His Future
The paranoia that young Kerry warned against is now a staple of the Bush re-election campaign, and Kerry must meet it head-on.
Aug 3, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
Ditch the Distraction in Chief Ditch the Distraction in Chief
Last month, I reluctantly joined the Anybody But Bush camp. It was "Bush in a Box" that finally got me, a gag gift my brother gave my father on his sixty-sixth birthday.
Jul 29, 2004 / Column / Naomi Klein
He’s the (Any)One He’s the (Any)One
Can someone win the presidency entirely on the basis of a negative asset?
Jul 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Cockburn
Let’s Not Devalue Ourselves Let’s Not Devalue Ourselves
It says something about the iron grip of the culture wars on our politics that no less a liberal than John Kerry--with his 100 percent ratings from NARAL, Human Rights Campaign, ...
Jul 29, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt
A White House Response To the 9/11 Commission’s Finding That Iran Had More Contact With the Hijackers Than Iraq Did A White House Response To the 9/11 Commission’s Finding That Iran Had More Contact With the Hijackers Than Iraq Did
The little error that we may have made In picking out a country to invade Was understandable. The names, of course, Are close, and when you make a show of force
Jul 29, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin
An Excuse-Spouting Bush Is Busted by the 9/11 Report An Excuse-Spouting Bush Is Busted by the 9/11 Report
Before, incompetence and sloth; after, lies and the wrong war.
Jul 27, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer