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A Solution at Last A Solution at Last

Likud says it does not anticipate That Palestinians will have a state. So they, in turn, are meant to stop this shrying, And try to make their peace with occupying.

May 16, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Racial Prescriptions Racial Prescriptions

A recent front-page story in the Boston Globe proclaimed that New England leads the nation in Ritalin prescription levels. Somewhat to my surprise, the prevalence of Ritalin in...

May 16, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Lights Out on Bush’s Excuses Lights Out on Bush’s Excuses

Now that the Enron culprits have been caught red-handed, might not the media inquire of the President whether he takes any responsibility for nearly bankrupting California by ref...

May 15, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Real David Brock The Real David Brock

When incurable liberals like Todd Gitlin and Eric Alterman begin using the name Whittaker Chambers as a term of approbation, we are entitled to say that there has been what the Ger...

May 9, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Regressive Progressive? Regressive Progressive?

As chairman of the fifty-nine-member Congressional Progressive Caucus and potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich has ...

May 9, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

A Short History of the French Presidential Election A Short History of the French Presidential Election

In Paris it began to look Like Jacques Chirac was just a crook, But voters voted for him when He ran against Le Pen again. Though graft is certainly a curse, They figured th...

May 9, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

President Bush’s Wag-the-Dog Policy on Iraq President Bush’s Wag-the-Dog Policy on Iraq

With its admission that an alleged link between Saddam Hussein and the Sept. 11 attacks doesn't exist, the Bush administration has lost its most compelling argument for invadin...

May 9, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Bad Work Bad Work

Howard Gardner, the noted education/cognition specialist, recently undertook, with two colleagues, an in-depth study of the work-related happiness of two groups of people, gene...

May 2, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

Extreme Solutions Extreme Solutions

Extreme Solution I: Priests The old movies used to feature a priest walking alongside the condemned man toward the scaffold, offering last seconds of comfort, plea-barga...

May 2, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The Saudis and Their Oil Rigs The Saudis and Their Oil Rigs

(Sung to the tune of "The Farmer and the Cowman" from Oklahoma!) The Saudis and their oil rigs are our friends. Oh, the Saudis and their oil rigs are our friends. They...

May 2, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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