The Joe and Hil Follies The Joe and Hil Follies
It's a slippery slope that these two lawgivers would have us tread.
Sep 6, 2001 / Danny Goldberg
A Good Death A Good Death
Euthanasia is the right step for some people, but today the person taking that step must do so unaided.
Sep 6, 2001 / Carol Bernstein Ferry
Cleaning Up Elections Cleaning Up Elections
The Shays-Meehan bill would help reform campaign financing--but there is a much better solution.
Sep 6, 2001 / The Editors
Al, Don’t Run Al, Don’t Run
He may have been screwed out of the election, but he's still a terrible candidate.
Sep 6, 2001 / Feature / David Corn
The Dishonest Debate The Dishonest Debate
The facts about Bush's tax cuts are being kept from the public.
Sep 6, 2001 / Robert L. Borosage
Monarchs Landing and Flying Monarchs Landing and Flying
If they have come for the butterflies then bless their breaking hearts, but the young pair is looking nowhere except each other's eyes. He seems like he could carry them both over the street on great wings of grief tucked under his coat, while all around them float, like wisps of ash or the delicate prism sunlight flashing off the city glass, the orange-yellow-black-wing-flecked monarchs. Migrant, they're more than two dozen today, more long-lived than the species who keep to the localized gardens--they're barely a gram apiece, landing, holding still for the common milkweed that feeds their larvae, or balanced on bridges of plumegrass stalks and bottle-brush, wings fanning, closing, calmed by the long searchlight stems of hollyhock. If they have come for the butterflies then why is she weeping when he lifts her chin? He looks like he's holding his breath back-- or is he trying to shed tears, too? Are any left? He's got his other hand raised, waving, and almost before it stops the taxi's doors flare on both sides open. Nothing's stirring in the garden, not us, not the thinnest breeze among the flowers, yet by the time we look again they've flown.
Sep 6, 2001 / Books & the Arts / David Baker
On the Record: Toward a Union Label On the Record: Toward a Union Label
Courtney Love's plea to fellow recording artists to join her in the creation of a new musicians' guild, printed below, is the latest blow to the beleaguered "Big Five
Sep 6, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Courtney Love and Johnny Temple
Jeb vs. Janet in Florida Jeb vs. Janet in Florida
Next year's Florida gubernatorial election--which could pit presidential brother and current GOP Governor Jeb Bush against former Attorney General Janet Reno--is developing into t...
Sep 5, 2001 / John Lantigua
W, Ever Hear of FDR? Fix Some Potholes, Help Some Schoolkids W, Ever Hear of FDR? Fix Some Potholes, Help Some Schoolkids
Finally, President Bush is "deeply worried" about the economy. Yep, in remarks last week, he even went so far as to observe that "the recovery is very slow in coming."
Sep 4, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer