Politics

Pill of Choice Pill of Choice

It took twelve years for the FDA to approve mifepristone--also known as RU-486--and most of that time had less to do with medicine than with the politics of abortion. Still, th...

Oct 5, 2000 / The Editors

Influence Peddling, Bush Style Influence Peddling, Bush Style

Democrats weren't the only ones who benefited from knowing wealthy Asians.

Oct 5, 2000 / Feature / David Corn and Dan Moldea

No Defense No Defense

How the New York Times convicted Wen Ho Lee.

Oct 5, 2000 / Feature / Robert Scheer

Letters Letters

'THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY' New York City Christopher Hitchens is correct to point out that Norman Finkelstein's book The Holocaust Industry has enjoyed a gre...

Oct 5, 2000 / Burt Neuborne, Gabriel Schoenfeld, Wayne Owens, and Nora Cusack

Mary Cheney Just Might Teach the Right a Lesson Mary Cheney Just Might Teach the Right a Lesson

Let's give up some applause for Dick Cheney for affirming in deed, if not words, that homosexuality is perfectly consistent with traditional family values. The decision for a Rep...

Oct 3, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Policing Pregnancy Policing Pregnancy

The Supreme Court opens its new term with a case that raises the stakes dramatically in the politics of fetal rights. At issue in Ferguson v. City of Charleston is whether a publ...

Sep 28, 2000 / Rachel Roth

‘Controlling Authority’ ‘Controlling Authority’

In campaign speeches George W. Bush repeats Al Gore's defense of his 1996 campaign fundraising phone calls from his government office--"there is no controlling legal authority"--...

Sep 28, 2000 / Robert L. Weinberg

Newt, Still Newt, Still

When he was king, the Democrats Saw Newt as all that's rotten. Though he's long gone, they're making sure He doesn't get forgotten. On every ad, they talk of Newt's ...

Sep 28, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Stop, Thief! Stop, Thief!

Neoconservatives are serial grave-robbers. Back in the early eighties, Norman Podhoretz tried to claim both Ronald Reagan and George Orwell as part of his meshuggeneh mishpocheh....

Sep 28, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman

Gore and His Reinventions Gore and His Reinventions

What an odd presidential race! So long as George W. Bush keeps his mouth shut and remains in seclusion he floats up in the polls. His best strategy would be to bag the debates, t...

Sep 28, 2000 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

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