A Bipartisan Scandal A Bipartisan Scandal
Members of Congress return to Washington this week. After afall in which their tenure was characterized by unprecedentedinaction, politicians who occupy positions of public trust w...
Jan 22, 2002 / John Nichols
Enron Got Its Money’s Worth Enron Got Its Money’s Worth
One of the major falsehoods being bandied about by apologists for the Bush Administration is that while Enron may have bankrolled much of the President's political career it got no...
Jan 22, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Who’s Utopian Now? Who’s Utopian Now?
Welfare reform has left America dangerously undefended against hard times.
Jan 17, 2002 / Feature / Frances Fox Piven and Barbara Ehrenreich
Harvard Raps West Harvard Raps West
As the chairman of Artemis Records, the company that released Cornel West's CD, Sketches of My Culture, I considered criticizing Cornel for his association with Lawrence Summers,...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Danny Goldberg
Afghanistan by Stagelight Afghanistan by Stagelight
A review of Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul.
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Pochoda
Letters Letters
JURY DUTY--I New York City A Trial by Jury, both the book and Carl T. Bogus's review ["A Verdict on the System," Dec. 10, 2001], were interesting and insig...
Jan 17, 2002 / Michael Massing, Wallace Shawn, and Our Readers
All Together Now… All Together Now…
It was not without warning that Congress voted to end welfare-as-we-knew-it in 1996, but still, it seemed to catch the progressive community off-guard.
Jan 17, 2002 / The Editors
Enron Conservatives Enron Conservatives
Concerned about potential taint from the metastasizing Enron scandal, George W. Bush met with reporters recently to distance himself from Enron's chairman, Ken Lay (nicknamed "Ke...
Jan 17, 2002 / Robert L. Borosage
Enron and the Bushes Enron and the Bushes
When George W. Bush was first running for governor of Texas, Washington editor David Corn took a look at Bush family activities on behalf of Enron in Argentina--itself now suffer...
Jan 17, 2002 / David Corn