Thomas Speaks! Thomas Speaks!
Back during the presidential campaign, George W. Bush called Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia his favorite Supreme Court Justices--a remark widely interpreted at the time as ...
Feb 23, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
A Democratic Lullaby to Bill Clinton A Democratic Lullaby to Bill Clinton
As Bush finds backs to pat and hands to shake, The Democrats can't seem to buy a break. The opposition doesn't coalesce, Because the spotlight's on the Clinton mess, A ...
Feb 23, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Salter’s Flight Path Salter’s Flight Path
We have many male authors known for loving women, fewer known for loving men. Love that is not overtly homoerotic--resolutely heterosexual, in fact--can take on an intimacy and pu...
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Eric Weinberger
Bully in the Pulpit? Bully in the Pulpit?
Bully in the Pulpit? The following is a forum on Ellen Willis's "Freedom From Religion," which appeared in the February 19 issue. --The ...
Feb 23, 2001 / Tom Hayden, Michael Eric Dyson, Ellen Willis, Michael Kazin, Frances Kissling, Arthur Hertzberg, Richard Parker, Jim Wallis, and Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
Fields of Thorns in Palestine Fields of Thorns in Palestine
The Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip began in late September 2000 as a wave of popular protest against Ariel Sharon’s belligerent incursion into Jerusalem’s sac...
Feb 22, 2001 / Feature / Mouin Rabbani
The Pro-choice PR Problem The Pro-choice PR Problem
Young women, who've never lacked abortion rights, are tough to mobilize.
Feb 15, 2001 / Feature / Jennifer Baumgardner
Bush’s Hit Man Bush’s Hit Man
GOP strategist Karl Rove and the politics of destruction.
Feb 15, 2001 / Feature / Lou Dubose
Power Lines Power Lines
As George W. Bush so fuzzily put it, "The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating ...
Feb 15, 2001 / The Editors
The Embarrassment of the Riches The Embarrassment of the Riches
Are the Clintons better off than they were eight years ago? The evidence appears to point to a resounding yes. So why do they seem to resent the question? Probably because only a f...
Feb 15, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
In Fact… In Fact…
NAME THE PRESIDENT UPDATE Our contest to pick a title for George W. Bush, the present occupant of the White House, has evidently touched a nerve. Hundreds of cards, letters and e...
Feb 15, 2001 / The Editors