Forked-Tongue Budget Forked-Tongue Budget
Resident Bush's budget brandishes the camouflaged conservatism that is the hallmark of this disingenuous Administration. It advertises a 4 percent increase in discretionary spendi...
Apr 12, 2001 / Robert L. Borosage
Sovereign Corporations Sovereign Corporations
When NAFTA was adopted in 1993, Chapter 11 in the trade and investment agreement was too obscure to stir controversy. Eight years later, it's the smoking gun in the intensifying a...
Apr 12, 2001 / William Greider
A Fairness Agenda for the Bush Era A Fairness Agenda for the Bush Era
In the clash over tax cuts and social programs, much of what progressives need to do is defensive. But it would be a mistake not to float new ideas, too.
Apr 5, 2001 / Feature /
A Time To Be Bold A Time To Be Bold
In recent months, as a newly elected senator, I have had to decide whether to join the Democratic Leadership Council. I have chosen not to because while I shared its founding purp...
Mar 30, 2001 / Gov. Jon Corzine
Zapatistas on the March Zapatistas on the March
Many compared it to marching through a dream. After seven years under siege by 70,000 Mexican Army troops in the jungles and highlands of Chiapas, the Zapatista National Liberat...
Mar 22, 2001 / Al Giordano
Stockman Returneth Stockman Returneth
Twenty years ago this season, when another new Republican President arrived in Washington to push for massive income-tax reductions, I was having breakfast every other Saturday mo...
Mar 15, 2001 / William Greider
Trading With the Enemy Trading With the Enemy
Multinationals, their intellectual coverings shredded, are love-bombing labor while hunting for new fig leaves.
Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / William Greider
Charity for All Charity for All
President George W. Bush's effort to repeal the estate tax has revealed contradictions in the nonprofit sector and confusion about what it values and where it stands.
Mar 6, 2001 / Mark Rosenman
Bush’s Bogus Budget Bush’s Bogus Budget
The loudest applause during George W. Bush's first budget address to Congress--a thumping, shouting, jump-to-your-feet outpouring of enthusiasm--erupted in response to his first m...
Mar 1, 2001 / The Editors
A Fete for the End of the End of History A Fete for the End of the End of History
At Brazil's "counter-Davos," democracy was in; elitism, corporations were out.
Mar 1, 2001 / Feature / Naomi Klein