The Last Job Ashcroft Should Be Given Is AG The Last Job Ashcroft Should Be Given Is AG
That John Ashcroft is a right-wing, pro-gun religious fanatic who laments the civil rights gains of the past decades and believes that leaders of the pro-slavery Southern Confede...
Jan 16, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Beat The Beat
New Year, New Party Vermont voters have elected Independent Bernie Sanders to five terms in the US House, sent four independent progressives to their state legislature an
Jan 13, 2000 / John Nichols
The Ballad of John Rocker, A Slur-Driven Man The Ballad of John Rocker, A Slur-Driven Man
(Sung to the tune of "The Ballad of John Henry")
Jan 13, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Her Compassion for One Is Deserved by Many Her Compassion for One Is Deserved by Many
Let's assume that Linda Chavez had the best of intentions when she broke the law by harboring an illegal immigrant. More power to her for her compassion, even if at the very sa...
Jan 11, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
You Can’t Be a Moderate and Pick Ashcroft for Justice You Can’t Be a Moderate and Pick Ashcroft for Justice
Senate Democrats must save George W. Bush from his scarier self. They must reject the appointment of John Ashcroft as attorney general, an appointment that gives the extreme ri...
Jan 9, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Greenspan and Gravity Greenspan and Gravity
The giddy adoration of Alan Greenspan has come to resemble the stock market bubble itself and, when one phenomenon comes to its end, so will the other.
Jan 6, 2000 / William Greider
Campaign Mystery Campaign Mystery
Conservatives cannot explain Just why reporters boost McCain. It seems an odd way to express The liberal bias of the press.
Jan 6, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Answers Are… The Answers Are…
In our November 29 issue appeared "The Presidential Aptitude Test," a proposed snap quiz for candidates inspired by George W. Bush's flunking a test on the names of certain forei...
Jan 6, 2000 / The Editors
Brownout at School Brownout at School
The Color of School Reform represents the kind of scholarship that by rights should influence the design of smart policy.
Jan 6, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp
A Far-Right Nominee Who’s All Wrong A Far-Right Nominee Who’s All Wrong
How ironic that Ashcroft's supporters now ask that he be treated with kid gloves during his own nomination hearings.
Jan 2, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer