What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT: Sex, Hope and Rock and Roll. By Ellen Willis.
Aug 9, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Liza Featherstone
Kissinger, Quayle, Gingrich and Perle on a Lie Detector? Kissinger, Quayle, Gingrich and Perle on a Lie Detector?
Will the Pentagon wire up Henry Kissinger, Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich--that is, submit them to lie detector tests? And do the same with all other members ...
Aug 7, 2002 / David Corn
Dingell clout trumps Rivers; women nominated for governorships Dingell clout trumps Rivers; women nominated for governorships
After an often bitter, intensely ideological Michigan primary contest that pitted two of the most politically and personally distinct Democrats in Congress, U.S. Rep. John Dingell...
Aug 7, 2002 / John Nichols
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
W. and the Coal Miners: Photo-op Cover for Anti-worker Policies W. and the Coal Miners: Photo-op Cover for Anti-worker Policies
George W. Bush is crass. Before heading to Texas for a month of vacation--longer than the average worker's--the President stopped at the local fire ...
Aug 6, 2002 / David Corn
Secret Arrests Are an Odious Concept Secret Arrests Are an Odious Concept
Following the September 11 attacks, the federal government rounded up more than 1,000 people and detained them without revealing their identities.
Aug 5, 2002 / The Editors
Senate Hearings Expose Lack of Consensus on Iraq War Senate Hearings Expose Lack of Consensus on Iraq War
If there is a point to having a Congress in a time of war, it has been made this week by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on whether the United States could, should...
Aug 2, 2002 / John Nichols
Screening Our Politics Screening Our Politics
Like Pop-Up Video--one of the many things the movie-industry left never anticipated--ancillary factoids keep imposing themselves on Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner's Radical Hollywood:...
Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson
The Church’s Tug of War The Church’s Tug of War
Women are a driving force behind reform in the Catholic Church.
Aug 1, 2002 / Feature / Angela Bonavoglia
Bubble Capitalism Bubble Capitalism
One bubble burst, then another and another. Enron, Global Crossing, WorldCom. The rectitude of auditors--pop. Faith in corporate CEOs and stock market analysts--pop, pop. The self...
Aug 1, 2002 / The Editors