Political Figures

Bush’s New Gas Guzzler Bush’s New Gas Guzzler

George W. Bush's energy plan fudges the facts, raises false alarms, shamelessly peddles halfhearted green measures--all to provide a cover under which to slide the oil industry's ...

May 25, 2001 / The Editors

No Rush to Judges No Rush to Judges

President Bush's first list of nominees to the US Circuit Courts of Appeal, unveiled on May 8, was deceptively conciliatory and seeded with hard-to-oppose minorities and women, st...

May 17, 2001 / The Editors

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

The First 2,920 Days The First 2,920 Days

I was driving my son to soccer practice not long ago, listening to a National Public Radio wrap-up of President Bush's first hundred days in office. My son, who was just a baby w...

May 17, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

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

Take Back the Courts Take Back the Courts

President Bush's power to appoint judges is one he hardly deserves because of the way he achieved his office.

May 3, 2001 / The Editors

Grover Norquist: ‘Field Marshal’ of the Bush Plan Grover Norquist: ‘Field Marshal’ of the Bush Plan

He's an archconservative who thinks big and knows how to get things done.

Apr 26, 2001 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss

The Worst 100 Days The Worst 100 Days

It's back to the future with the George W. Bush who is leading the nation--in the hard-edged style of the recent fiasco in Florida.

Apr 26, 2001 / The Editors

Lie to the Media, Get a Job Lie to the Media, Get a Job

Perhaps I underestimate the joy of being given a silly nickname by the Leader of the Free World, but I'm having a hard time understanding why media big feet are so taken by the n...

Apr 19, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman

Bush Unites the Enviros Bush Unites the Enviros

In early April an alert was sent out by a longtime oceans activist worried that the Bush Administration was about to reverse a program to establish marine protected areas. A numbe...

Apr 19, 2001 / David Helvarg

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