Politics

The Wind She Blows The Wind She Blows

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," some sage once wrote. Just so. As this issue went to press, the Museum of International Folk Art, a state-run insti...

May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Art Winslow

De-Foucaulding the GOP De-Foucaulding the GOP

De-Foucaulding the GOP New York City Win McCormack's sophisticated examination of conservative tactics in the last election was fascinating ["Deconstructing the...

May 25, 2001 / Win McCormack and Our Readers

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

The Jeffords Jump The Jeffords Jump

"What do we do now?" That famous last line of the 1972 film The Candidate, in which Robert Redford finds himself--to his surprise--elected to the Senate, should be on the minds of...

May 23, 2001 / David Corn

Beauty and Sadness Beauty and Sadness

A tidal wave is coming. Soon I am sure. It will sweep all of us away.       --The opening lines of Eureka One of the more familiar works of Japane...

May 17, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson

Villaraigosa’s Hot in Los Angeles Villaraigosa’s Hot in Los Angeles

His mayoral campaign platform is the most progressive in modern city history.

May 17, 2001 / Feature / Marc Cooper

Letters Letters

GREECE [heart] MACEDONIA New York City Dusko Doder's assertion, in "Balkans Breakdown" [April 30], that Greece was against the Former Yugoslav Republic ...

May 17, 2001 / Robert Alvarez, Dusko Doder, William D. Hartung, and Dimitris Gemelos

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

Lost in Space Lost in Space

A report by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Space Commission advocates circumventing the intent of international laws that seek to keep space free from war and urges that t...

May 17, 2001 / Karl Grossman and Judith Long

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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