Pity Bush, Gamely Shedding Treaties Like Dandruff Pity Bush, Gamely Shedding Treaties Like Dandruff
It is time to rally around our President and forego the constant drumbeat of criticism that has been his lot on the world stage ever since he discovered that foreign policy invol...
Jul 31, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Shedding Lincoln’s Mantle Shedding Lincoln’s Mantle
American politicians are not noted for their historical self-consciousness.
Jul 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
Schmoozapalooza 2000 Schmoozapalooza 2000
So ABC is arranging its convention coverage around an exhibition football game. NBC is giving us just the acceptance speeches.
Jul 27, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Beat The Beat
UNWELCOMING THE REPUBLICANS "It's surprising that the Republicans are coming to Philadelphia, really surprising.
Jul 27, 2000 / John Nichols
In the Eighth Circle of Thieves In the Eighth Circle of Thieves
The power and sovereignty of corporations is an enormous humiliation to a society of free people.
Jul 27, 2000 / Feature / E.L. Doctorow
Hard Right Burning for Bush? Hard Right Burning for Bush?
Perhaps it was because he was recovering from painful back surgery, but a few weeks before the Republican convention, Paul Weyrich, a founder of the religious right, was awful gr...
Jul 27, 2000 / Feature / David Corn
Paying to Party Paying to Party
It's no secret that the national conventions are no longer dramatic arenas in which the parties decide their presidential nominees or, for that matter, anything else of much impo...
Jul 27, 2000 / Feature / David Enrich
Bush’s Touchy-Feely Economics Bush’s Touchy-Feely Economics
The economics of George W.
Jul 27, 2000 / Feature / William Greider
Politics 2001: Bush Rules, Gore Drools Politics 2001: Bush Rules, Gore Drools
Where is Al Gore? Maybe he hasn't noticed, but all sorts of horrible things are happening under the Bush Administration--just as he predicted. Yet Gore has been totally silent. ...
Jul 17, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
If Not Now… If Not Now…
There are a number of persuasive reasons to cast a vote for Ralph Nader in the fall, and a number of unpersuasive reasons, too.
Jul 13, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens