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Many a US President Pays the Pardon Piper Many a US President Pays the Pardon Piper

The media coverage of the Clinton pardons has been so biased, overblown and vituperative as to call into question the very purpose of what currently passes as journalism. It is d...

Mar 6, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Secret History of Lead The Secret History of Lead

Research support was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute. Follow-ups: "Amplification," June 19, 2000 and letters exchanges: "Lead--Balloons and Bouquets," Ma...

Mar 2, 2000 / Feature / Jamie Lincoln Kitman

From Crimson to Coal Seam From Crimson to Coal Seam

I first heard about Powers Hapgood while working at the United Mine Workers, an organization he had tried to change fifty years earlier.

Mar 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early

Timeline Timeline

8,5000 Years of LEAD... 79 Years of LEADED Gasoline BC:

Mar 2, 2000 / Feature / Jamie Lincoln Kitman

Cemetery Road Cemetery Road

Progressives are really grasping at straws these days. First we're supposed to get excited because Ralph Nader is running for President as a Green.

Mar 2, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt

AFL-CIO Goes Global AFL-CIO Goes Global

Seattle changed many things, and one of them is American labor. Nothing lifts the spirit or one's vision like winning.

Mar 2, 2000 / William Greider

On Leo, Gio and Tobey On Leo, Gio and Tobey

It's a sign of age: Mention 1985, and I will sometimes think you're talking about last year.

Mar 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Infinite Jest Infinite Jest

Dave Eggers's memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, has been a bit too loudly hyped as an ironic tearjerker, and a media juggernaut has branded its author a tragic h...

Mar 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Elise Harris

Bush Family Conversations on Retaking the White House Bush Family Conversations on Retaking the White House

The first son seemed anointed, then The tide began to ebb. Did anybody ever ask, "So could we bring in Jeb?"

Mar 2, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Court Did What Helms Couldn’t: Trashed the ADA The Court Did What Helms Couldn’t: Trashed the ADA

The rogues in robes are on the move. US Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the leader of the pack, and the rest of the Court's right-wing majority have launched a ...

Feb 27, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

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