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Crusader: Intrigue and Backstabbing In the House of Bush Crusader: Intrigue and Backstabbing In the House of Bush

It's a tale of big guns and a big gun. It's a Bush family melodrama, a story of personal connections, possible backstabbing and multiple intrigues, a Washin...

May 6, 2002 / David Corn

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare I have been on something of a Shakespeare comedy jag over the past months; I laughed all the way from Columbus, Ohio, to New York...

May 6, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Afghan Victims Deserve US Support Afghan Victims Deserve US Support

When Congress contemplates the upcoming 2002 Supplemental Appropriations bill, there's a small item that should be added to the budget: $20 million to help the Afghan people who w...

May 3, 2002 / Medea Benjamin and Jason Mark

No-Risk Electioneering No-Risk Electioneering

A news photograph of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf in a green pagaree, an ornamental turban, was proof enough that the somewhat dapper and, perhaps, truly disinterested ge...

May 3, 2002 / Andy McCord

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

Supreme Court v. Unions Supreme Court v. Unions

The recent decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board makes it plain that the Court's majority lives in denial...

May 2, 2002 / David Bacon

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

Gayness Becomes You Gayness Becomes You

Nearly fifty years ago, in Eros and Civilization, Herbert Marcuse suggested that homosexuals (then the current term) might someday--because of their "rebellion against the subjuga...

May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Martin Duberman

More Accounting Tricks More Accounting Tricks

Since the fall of the House of Enron, Republicans have been polishing their populist patter. George W. Bush cast aside his patron, Enron CEO Ken "Kenny Boy" Lay, and proclaimed hi...

May 2, 2002 / The Editors

In Fact… In Fact…

BUSH'S SHADE OF GREEN Chris Floyd writes: It's no mystery why the Bush Administration engineered the ouster of Robert Watson as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel o...

May 2, 2002 / The Editors

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