Bush’s War in Afghanistan: A Case of Big Mission Creep? Bush’s War in Afghanistan: A Case of Big Mission Creep?
Did the United States recently engage in an illegal act of war? On February 19, "The New York Times" placed on its front page a story headlined, "In...
Feb 20, 2002 / David Corn
Making Money, the Bush Way Making Money, the Bush Way
You have to hand it to George Bush the senior for hustle. Back in 1998, he took at least $80,000 in stock from Global Crossing in return for speaking for the company in Tokyo.
Feb 19, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
From Muckraker to Mayor From Muckraker to Mayor
As a take-no-prisoners political columnist for an alternative newspaper in Dallas, Laura Miller made mayors miserable. She declared city officials "brain dead" and portrayed them ...
Feb 18, 2002 / John Nichols
How Enron Did Texas How Enron Did Texas
Enron, maker of big promises and big donations, stands revealed as a four-flusher.
Feb 14, 2002 / Feature / Nate Blakeslee
Letters Letters
PIERRE BOURDIEU Chicago I must say that Katha Pollitt's exquisite and moving memorial to Pierre Bourdieu ["Subject to Debate," Feb. 18] brought a little warm...
Feb 14, 2002 / Our Readers
Ellison Unbound Ellison Unbound
"I remind myself that much of television is now comic strip," Ralph Ellison told TV Guide in 1988. It is not surprising that the author of Invisible Man would be uncomfortable wi...
Feb 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Yaffe
Letter From China Letter From China
While the elite embrace globalization, the anger of workers and peasants grows.
Feb 14, 2002 / Feature / Jiang Xueqin
Kenny Boy Kenny Boy
(A Houston version of the Irish folk song) Oh, Kenny Boy, your friends are disappearing. They don't know you, much less your kvetchy wife. Yes, it's sad when pols that y...
Feb 14, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Lost in America Lost in America
"When I write, I bid farewell to myself," Jimmy Santiago Baca said in 1992. "I leave most of what I know behind and wander through the landscape of language." This is a memorable...
Feb 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans
Egg on the Brain Egg on the Brain
It may look as if domestic politics no longer exists in the new America--the one in which there is no money for anything besides guns and prisons but we don't care because we are...
Feb 14, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt