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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
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
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
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
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
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
Aiming for a Conviction Aiming for a Conviction
Anyone looking for evidence that the death penalty should be abolished need only look at the case of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called twentieth hijacker, now on trial for his lif...
May 2, 2002 / Feature / Dave Lindorff
A ‘Thirst for the Divine’ A ‘Thirst for the Divine’
Charles Wright and Charles Simic count among the best poets of their generation. Each career has unfolded with considerable excitement for serious readers of contemporary poetry, ...
May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jay Parini
Investigating Jenin Investigating Jenin
The Jenin refugee camp's jagged concrete hillside of homes-turned-into-graves has yet to yield all its secrets.
May 1, 2002 / Feature / Charmaine Seitz
Blame Church Arrogance, Not Oversexed Society Blame Church Arrogance, Not Oversexed Society
While it might appear to be sweet revenge for the Inquisition, it is best to resist the impulse to burn some Catholic priests--and the cardinals who covered up their criminal a...
May 1, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer