Lobbying

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

Star Wars Boosters Star Wars Boosters

As soon as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney take up the reins of government, they'll give a big boost to waging war in and from space.

Jan 11, 2001 / Karl Grossman and Judith Long

If Politics Got Real… If Politics Got Real…

If politics got real...the debate over costly prescription drugs would turn to more fundamental solutions like breaking up the pharmaceutical industry's patent monopolies, which ...

Oct 26, 2000 / William Greider

More Corporate Welfare More Corporate Welfare

Who says this is a do-nothing Congress? Sure, it can't agree on expanding the childcare tax credit or approve an increase in the minimum wage. Yet, as Congress prepares to adjour...

Oct 19, 2000 / Rep. Peter DeFazio

High-Tech Cheap Labor High-Tech Cheap Labor

Only months after a major victory on China trade, Big Business is again scavenging for cheap labor. This time, the high-tech industry is pressuring Congress to allow additional f...

Sep 28, 2000 / David Enrich

Waging War in Space Waging War in Space

"Master of Space"--a motto of the United States Space Command, a joint Air Force, Army and Navy command set up by the Pentagon in 1985--says it all.

Dec 9, 1999 / Karl Grossman and Judith Long

Kenneth Starr in a car

Smoke in Starr’s Chamber Smoke in Starr’s Chamber

This essay is adapted from Thomas Ferguson’s “Blowing Smoke: Who Wants Clinton Impeached And Why,” for American Democracy in the Twenty-First Century, edited by William Crotty.

Feb 18, 1999 / Feature / Thomas Ferguson

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