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Bush’s Contra Buddies Bush’s Contra Buddies

The current President George Bush, whose very name evokes a dark era many would prefer to forget, seems determined to resurrect the ghosts of America's scandal-ridden past. A numb...

Apr 19, 2001 / Peter Kornbluh

Compassionate Aversionism Compassionate Aversionism

Within weeks of taking office, President Bush started to dispense compassionate conservatism with a vengeance. As the first order of business, he moved to give a massive tax windf...

Apr 19, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gara LaMarche

Journalism & Democracy Journalism & Democracy

On the importance of being a "public nuisance."

Apr 19, 2001 / Feature / Bill Moyers

Corporate Welfare Spoils Corporate Welfare Spoils

In one of the most foolish and cruelly ironic urban public policy decisions in recent memory, New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani are planning...

Apr 19, 2001 / Ralph Nader

China: Beyond the Matrix China: Beyond the Matrix

Bill Clinton and George Will so rarely agree with each other that when they embrace the same position, we should be alarmed. This thought came to mind upon realizing that their st...

Apr 19, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Sovereign Corporations Sovereign Corporations

When NAFTA was adopted in 1993, Chapter 11 in the trade and investment agreement was too obscure to stir controversy. Eight years later, it's the smoking gun in the intensifying a...

Apr 12, 2001 / William Greider

Black Politics in the Bush Era: Fallout From 2000 Will Continue Black Politics in the Bush Era: Fallout From 2000 Will Continue

Angry over the Florida debacle, African-Americans may retaliate in 2002.

Apr 12, 2001 / Feature / Ron Walters

Justice: The First Casualty of Truth? Justice: The First Casualty of Truth?

If Gen. Augusto Pinochet had not been arrested in England on the night of October 16, 1998, the truth about his crimes would never have been fully revealed and democracy in Chile ...

Apr 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Reed Brody

Commies and the Conservatives Who Love Them Commies and the Conservatives Who Love Them

Remember the term "useful idiots"? Those were the well-meaning leftists who during the cold war couldn't distinguish between the beautiful dream of communism and the mu...

Apr 5, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman

Stones, Glass Houses, Sontag and Said Stones, Glass Houses, Sontag and Said

To put it all in a nutshell, come the month of May Edward Said won't be traveling to Vienna; Susan Sontag will be traveling to Jerusalem. It's a backhanded tribute ...

Apr 5, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

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