New Federal Hires New Federal Hires
So Elliott Abrams (the felon) is back, And Poindexter's now a big cheese. High-level appointments now favor the guys With rap sheets instead of CVs.
Dec 12, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Hungry Physician The Hungry Physician
It seemed like a straightforward invitation. Dinner at an upscale uptown restaurant, sponsored by a drug company, where the topic was to be financial planning.
Dec 12, 2002 / Dr. Marc Siegel
Iraq After D-Day: The Cordesman Memo Iraq After D-Day: The Cordesman Memo
Napoleon would sketch out in an afternoon the new constitution and legal arrangements for one of France's imperial conquests.
Dec 12, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Reasons for Doubt Reasons for Doubt
When I was in college, I joined a court-watching project in Roxbury, Massachusetts. We observed criminal trials, then interviewed judges, lawyers and witnesses.
Dec 12, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Three Mile Island of Biotech? The Three Mile Island of Biotech?
When plants in Nebraska carrying swine diarrhea drugs mingled with food for humans, all hell broke loose.
Dec 12, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols
The Evil of Access The Evil of Access
Campaign finance reform can succeed--but only if the pressure stays on.
Dec 12, 2002 / Feature / Mark Green
Where Were the Women? Where Were the Women?
Their support of Democrats declined in 2002, helping to sink the party's fortunes.
Dec 12, 2002 / Feature / Anna Greenberg
Independent’s Day Independent’s Day
Minnesota's Dean Barkley represents a movement with a strong state foothold.
Dec 12, 2002 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry
The Conservative Imagination The Conservative Imagination
Dinesh D'Souza became a right-wing campus radical at Dartmouth in the late Carter years. His motives should be recognizable to former campus radicals of the other variety.
Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / George Packer