Block Ashcroft–II Block Ashcroft–II
Just how bad an Attorney General would John Ashcroft be? And is his nomination worth fighting? To answer the first question, talk to those who have experienced Ashcroft up close ...
Jan 5, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
Bush’s Hammer Bush’s Hammer
House GOP whip Tom DeLay will do his best to pull the President to the right.
Jan 5, 2001 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
Block Ashcroft–I Block Ashcroft–I
John Ashcroft's nomination as Attorney General is the first installment on George W. Bush's enormous political debt to the radical right. Remember back in early February when Bus...
Jan 5, 2001 / Burt Neuborne
Thou Shalt Not Kill Thou Shalt Not Kill
Christians are drifting away in their support of the death penalty.
Dec 22, 2000 / Feature / Marion Gross
Free Time for a Free People Free Time for a Free People
There's a growing movement to add livable hours to calls for a living wage.
Dec 14, 2000 / Feature / Arthur Waskow
Mr. Sammler’s Planet Mr. Sammler’s Planet
What ought to be read--and why--are questions that have a unique urgency in a multicultural milieu, where each group fights, legitimately, for its own space and voice. In the pas...
Nov 10, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans
For Whom the Gong Tolls For Whom the Gong Tolls
If you stand in Tiananmen Square and keep your eyes open on a normal day, you will see the tour groups with their "keep together" flags, and the long line waiting to see ...
Nov 2, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Cloud After Auschwitz Cloud After Auschwitz
You have "little trace," exclaimed Gershom Scholem in a letter he sent to the great Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt, of "love for the Jewish people." It was the early ...
Oct 26, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Neve Gordon
Whose Side’s Jesus On? Whose Side’s Jesus On?
Gore says he prays when crises loom. He asks just what would Jesus do. And then he does that very thing (If focus groups would do it too). So whose side's Jesus on, fol...
Oct 26, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Gay-Bashing at the Polls Gay-Bashing at the Polls
In their hunger to take back the White House, the Jerry Falwells and the Pat Robertsons have swallowed the mellow prose of Texas scripted for them by George W.'s handlers--but at...
Oct 12, 2000 / Doug Ireland