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The Conspiracy Continues… The Conspiracy Continues…

Did you know that the mere act of asking what kind of warning members of the Bush Administration may have received about a 9/11-like attack is just clever hype by that sneaky l...

May 30, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

The Future Wellstone Deserves The Future Wellstone Deserves

Greens running against Democrats, and maybe giving Republicans the edge? Anyone who thinks we'll have to wait till the Bush-Gore rematch in 2004 to get into that can of worms h...

May 30, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Joie de Vivre in the Land of Color-Coded Terrorism Alerts Joie de Vivre in the Land of Color-Coded Terrorism Alerts

I got up Monday feeling mellow: Expected red, but it was yellow.

May 30, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Racial Privacy Racial Privacy

Ward Connerly, figurehead for California's anti-affirmative action Proposition 209, is up to more mischief. This time it's a push to prevent California's public agencies from cl...

May 30, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

The Job Has Become Too Big for Ashcroft The Job Has Become Too Big for Ashcroft

OK, so maybe John Ashcroft and Robert Mueller are not the sharpest tools in the shed. How else to explain that, after September.

May 29, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Knowledge (and Power) Knowledge (and Power)

For Senator Clinton to flourish a copy of the New York Post--the paper that has called her pretty much everything from Satanic to Sapphist--merely because it had the pungent headli...

May 23, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

And Another Thing… And Another Thing…

Perhaps there's a limit to female masochism after all. To the great astonishment of the New York Times, which put the story on page one, Creating a Life, Sylvia Ann Hewlett's b...

May 23, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Dick Cheney’s Primer on the Constitution Dick Cheney’s Primer on the Constitution

So what's it called if during war you criticize the President for any reason? Treason. And how long does this war go on (and this is where this theory's really pretty clever)? ...

May 23, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Journeys With Fecklessness Journeys With Fecklessness

The essential mystery of the 2000 election has always been this: How in the world did George W. Bush ever get close enough to invite the Republican-appointed majority on the Su...

May 16, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

Israel and ‘Anti-Semitism’ Israel and ‘Anti-Semitism’

Right in the wake of House majority leader Dick Armey's explicit call for several million Palestinians to be booted out of the West Bank, and East Jerusalem and Gaza as well, c...

May 16, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

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