Articles

Egyptian Justice, US-Style Egyptian Justice, US-Style

President Hosni Mubarak is quite happy that the United States has decided to try civilian terrorist suspects in military courts. For ten years, Egypt has been taking fire from the ...

Jan 10, 2002 / Steve Negus

‘The Light for the Heart’ ‘The Light for the Heart’

The first Arabic music I heard was in its native habitat, while riding on gaudily painted buses through Turkey, Morocco and Syria in the 1960s. Before the drivers thrashed their ...

Jan 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jim Motavalli

Reading Between the Lines Reading Between the Lines

The new education law is a victory for Bush--and for his corporate allies.

Jan 10, 2002 / Feature / Stephen Metcalf

In Fact… In Fact…

ENRON: WHERE DOES THE BUCK STOP? The Justice Department and several Congressional committees are starting to look under the Enron rock. Representative Henry Waxman has been shoo...

Jan 10, 2002 / The Editors

Making Money on Terror Making Money on Terror

Four months after September 11, Osama bin Laden is on the run and the Pentagon is riding high. Our warmaker in chief, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, has been described by t...

Jan 10, 2002 / William D. Hartung

What Price Stimulus? What Price Stimulus?

"Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes," George W. Bush cryptically proclaimed. The press dutifully translated what he really meant, but few commented on the tasteless...

Jan 10, 2002 / The Editors

South Asia at the Brink South Asia at the Brink

India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who gathered here with the leaders of the other five South Asian countries for a summit meeting ...

Jan 10, 2002 / Kanak Mani Dixit

More Bush Poor Picks More Bush Poor Picks

When Washington gets back to business, there will be squawking over presidential appointments. Before the Christmas recess, GOPers were charging Senate majority leader Tom Daschl...

Jan 10, 2002 / David Corn and Emily Weintraub

Forbidden Truth? Forbidden Truth?

Conspiracy is going mainstream. Paula Zahn of CNN went into wide-eyed mode as she parleyed with Richard Butler, former head of the UN inspection team in Iraq, latterly part of th...

Jan 10, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Judging the Wise Guys Judging the Wise Guys

It's that time of the decade again; time to ask the time-honored question, "Whither the Public Intellectual?" We did it in the 1980s when Russell Jacoby first published his still...

Jan 10, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

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