Political Figures

Rove-r and Out? Rove-r and Out?

Maybe that Karl Rove ain't such a genius. In the past few weeks Democrats have, with a touch of glee, been wondering about George W. Bush's Svengali-strategist as Rove has stepped...

Jun 28, 2001 / David Corn

The Man From Alcoa The Man From Alcoa

Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill is turning out to be a dangerous crank.

Jun 28, 2001 / Feature / William Greider

Liberating Vieques Liberating Vieques

When George W. Bush announced from Sweden on June 14 that he planned to pull the US Navy out of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques by 2003, it struck some as odd when he referred ...

Jun 21, 2001 / Angelo Falcón

Elliott Abrams: It’s Back! Elliott Abrams: It’s Back!

"How would you feel if your wife and children were brutally raped before being hacked to death by soldiers during a military massacre of 800 civilians, and then two governments tr...

Jun 14, 2001 / David Corn

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

Bringing Down the Senate Bringing Down the Senate

Vermont, as John Kenneth Galbraith once observed, is the only state in the union represented in Congress by a Democrat, a Republican and a Socialist, who all vote more or less ali...

May 31, 2001 / The Editors

Shrub Flubs His Dub Shrub Flubs His Dub

Austin Oh, sure, blame it on Texas. It's all our fault Jim Jeffords walked. Many, many people in Washington are assuming "the Texans" in the White House are responsible ...

May 31, 2001 / Molly Ivins

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

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