Economy

Meet the Men Who Rule the World Meet the Men Who Rule the World

Where's the fashionable rendezvous for the World Secret Government? In the good old days when the Illuminati had a firm grip on things, it was wherever the Bilderbergers decided ...

Jun 14, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Bush’s Tax Savings: Unreal! Bush’s Tax Savings: Unreal!

A Nation analysis finds that benefits to Bush, Cheney and the Cabinet could top million.

Jun 7, 2001 / Feature / Michael Scherer

Edison’s Red Ink Schoolhouse Edison’s Red Ink Schoolhouse

The biggest brand name in for-profit education is floundering.

Jun 7, 2001 / Feature / Peter Schrag

White House Tax Windfall White House Tax Windfall

How much does the White House stand to save from Bush's tax cut?

Jun 7, 2001 / Feature / The Nation

Taking (Back) the Initiative Taking (Back) the Initiative

An activist think tank is fighting the right at the ballot box--and winning.

May 31, 2001 / Feature / David Sarasohn

Russia–Scamming the System Russia–Scamming the System

Thefts from other countries pale in relation to the looting of Russia, with the indispensable assistance of the "Offshornaya Zona." The 1995 "loans for shares" scheme transferred ...

May 31, 2001 / Feature / Lucy Komisar

Writers Wilt, SAG Sags Writers Wilt, SAG Sags

For the first few months of this year, it looked like Hollywood's unionized writers and actors were about to premiere a new labor strategy. As their conglomerate employers raked i...

May 25, 2001 / Marc Cooper

Prole Like Me Prole Like Me

About every thirty years for the last one hundred, a crusading journalist somewhere has gotten the same idea: Abandon the middle-class literary life (for a brief period), get a re...

May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early

Tax Cut Madness Tax Cut Madness

If all goes as the GOP has planned, George W. Bush will have on his desk by Memorial Day a $1.35 trillion tax bill that is wrongheaded and an utterly inequitable pander to the pri...

May 17, 2001 / The Editors

Dioxin: Studied to Death Dioxin: Studied to Death

Industry has been doing all it can to keep an EPA report from being published.

May 10, 2001 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard

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