Dancing With Wolves Dancing With Wolves
The Bush Administration is relying on falsehoods when making its case for opening up Alaska to drilling.
Feb 8, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
No Olive Branch No Olive Branch
How many times did we hear during the endless campaign that Bush wouldn't go after abortion if elected? Republicans, Naderites and countless know-it-alls and pundits in between a...
Feb 1, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Path of Least Resistance? Path of Least Resistance?
"Yes, nonviolence is a noble ideal, but do you really think it would stop a Hitler?" Or a street thug, a dictator, a death squad? Pacifists are long accustomed to these...
Feb 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Colman McCarthy
Bush’s True Colors Bush’s True Colors
Throughout the last campaign, while liberal Democrats warned that Bush was much more reactionary than he pretended to be, Naderites argued that Democrats were much less progressi...
Jan 26, 2001 / The Editors
Economists vs. Students Economists vs. Students
For more than two years, the antisweatshop movement has been the hottest political thing on campus [see Featherstone, "The New Student Movement," May 15, 2000]. Students have use...
Jan 26, 2001 / Doug Henwood and Liza Featherstone
The Crackdown on Dissent The Crackdown on Dissent
Police are up to old tricks: disrupting and spying on legal political activities.
Jan 18, 2001 / Feature / Abby Scher
Unions Without Borders Unions Without Borders
A new kind of internationalism is challenging neoliberal globalism.
Jan 5, 2001 / Feature / David Bacon
Alan Cranston Alan Cranston
After retiring from the Senate in 1993, Alan Cranston, who died on New Year's Eve of the new millennium in the home of his son Kim, began a new career that was as important as th...
Jan 5, 2001 / Jonathan Schell
Executioners’ Swan Song Executioners’ Swan Song
Capital punishment will be one of the defining issues of the coming year.
Dec 22, 2000 / The Editors
Middle East Divide Middle East Divide
Jerusalem One of the many casualties of the Palestinian intifada in the occupied territories, now entering its third month, is the alliance between the Palestinian nationa...
Dec 7, 2000 / Graham Usher