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Hijackers I Have Known Hijackers I Have Known

I have met three hijackers in my life, and I hope I do not sound crabby and disillusioned if I add that the standard of hijacking is not what it used to be.

Aug 29, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Richard Perle: Whose Fault Is He? Richard Perle: Whose Fault Is He?

Consider kids who bullied Richard Perle-- Those kids who said Perle threw just like a girl, Those kids who poked poor Perle to show how soft A mamma's boy could be, those kids...

Aug 29, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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America's rate of unwanted pregnancy is a huge public health scandal, but five years after being approved by the FDA, emergency contraception--the use of normal birth control p...

Aug 29, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Business Is Safe but Baseball Strikes Out Business Is Safe but Baseball Strikes Out

Everyone, from President Bush on down, seems to agree that major league baseball players are overpaid prima donnas who don't deserve the huge paychecks they get, let alone have a...

Aug 28, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Simplistic Hunt for Evil in a Complex World Simplistic Hunt for Evil in a Complex World

Doomed by the incoherence of a foreign policy defined largely by biblical notions of the struggle between good and evil, the Bush Administration thrashes about in its hunt for th...

Aug 21, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Sour Thoughts for Dog Days Sour Thoughts for Dog Days

Let's start with Cynthia McKinney. Don't you think that if Arab-American or African-American groups targeted an incumbent white, liberal, maybe Jewish, congressperson, and ship...

Aug 15, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The Accidental Commoner The Accidental Commoner

Al Gore is a man of the people. At least, that's the case as we speak. The earth-toney Harvard elitist, Though gone, could return by next week.

Aug 15, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Mayor of My Hometown The Mayor of My Hometown

It's only August, but I'll go out on a limb and congratulate the Village Voice's Keith Harris for what I feel confident will stand the test of time as the stupidest comment of ...

Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Weighing a Just War, or Settling an Old Score? Weighing a Just War, or Settling an Old Score?

In a column from 2002, Robert Scheer takes a look back at the Bush Administrations's real motivation to go to war.

Aug 6, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Macbeth in Mesopotamia Macbeth in Mesopotamia

Concerning the impending or perhaps imminent intervention in Iraq, we now inhabit a peculiar limbo, where the military options are known while the political and moral options are n...

Aug 1, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

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