Evil: The Quadruple Axel Evil: The Quadruple Axel
The hoofprints of Lucifer are everywhere. And since this is America, eternally at war with the darker forces, the foremost Enemy Within is sex, no quarter given. Here are some bu...
Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Campaign Finance Reform Campaign Finance Reform
We're told that this campaign reform is not The end-all of the sleaziness we've got. But it must have some worthwhile changes in it If Tom DeLay and Hastert are agin it.
Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Better Safe…? Better Safe…?
In my last column, I called the expansion of profiling that has occurred since September 11 "equal opportunity." I meant it ironically, but a surprising number of people took me ...
Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Making Money, the Bush Way Making Money, the Bush Way
You have to hand it to George Bush the senior for hustle. Back in 1998, he took at least $80,000 in stock from Global Crossing in return for speaking for the company in Tokyo.
Feb 19, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Black Mischief Black Mischief
On East Capitol Street a few years ago, I was in a taxi when a car pulled suddenly and dangerously across our bow. My driver was white, with a hunter's cap and earmuffs and an inde...
Feb 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Hitchens
Egg on the Brain Egg on the Brain
It may look as if domestic politics no longer exists in the new America--the one in which there is no money for anything besides guns and prisons but we don't care because we are...
Feb 14, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Kenny Boy Kenny Boy
(A Houston version of the Irish folk song) Oh, Kenny Boy, your friends are disappearing. They don't know you, much less your kvetchy wife. Yes, it's sad when pols that y...
Feb 14, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Enron Flew Under the Radar Enron Flew Under the Radar
Is the Enron story one of outrageous mendacity or stupefying ignorance?
Feb 13, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Axis Me No Questions… Axis Me No Questions…
George W. Bush's State of the Union address has laid bare his Administration's political strategy. It is to manipulate the grief, anger and patriotism inspired by September 11 to...
Feb 7, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
Take This Prize and Shove It Take This Prize and Shove It
Right till the end of January, Dita Sari, an Indonesian in her late 20s, was preparing to fly from her home near Jakarta to Salt Lake City to bask in the admiration of assorted d...
Feb 7, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn