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Stacked Decalogue Stacked Decalogue

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Sep 4, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Colin Powell and ‘The Power of Audacity’ Colin Powell and ‘The Power of Audacity’

One of the problems with the media coverage of this Administration is that it requires bad manners.

Sep 4, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman

A Short Conversation With a Sissy-Hawk on the Possibility of a Quagmire A Short Conversation With a Sissy-Hawk on the Possibility of a Quagmire

"The nerve! Not so! That word still rankles." "You're sinking. I can't see your ankles." "The thugs are here; we now just squeeze."

Sep 4, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Bush Was All Too Willing to Use Émigrés’ Lies Bush Was All Too Willing to Use Émigrés’ Lies

American experts urged the White House to be skeptical, but they hit a stone wall.

Sep 2, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

Handmaid in Babylon: The UN’s Decline and Fall Handmaid in Babylon: The UN’s Decline and Fall

"One has to be careful," said United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in late August, "not to confuse the UN with the US." If the Secretary General had taken his own advice...

Aug 28, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Just Wait Just Wait

The White House said, although it wasn't true, Iraq must be invaded, PDQ, Since terrorists, who'd caught us unaware, Were with Iraq, and always gathered there.

Aug 28, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Arrogant Arnold or Capable Cruz? Arrogant Arnold or Capable Cruz?

The giggle factor might propel a Jesse Ventura wannabe into management of the world's sixth-largest economy.

Aug 26, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

A Higher Tax on All Your Houses A Higher Tax on All Your Houses

Warren Buffet makes sense in rebuking Prop. 13--but the politicians jump up to save this sacred cow.

Aug 19, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

Mutiny in Manila Mutiny in Manila

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Aug 14, 2003 / Column / Naomi Klein

Patriotic Gore Patriotic Gore

The words "Al Gore" are properly understood to be synonymous with the words "cautious politician." And yet speaking to MoveOn.org at New York University recently, Gore gave voi...

Aug 14, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman

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