New York Ain't Boston
The Republican National Convention has an Olympic problem -- thousands of empty seats that shine blue, burgundy and toothpaste green out from the hall, draining away enthusiasm at first sight and...
View ArticleCrossing the Lines
The auctioning off of Iraq began in the summer of 2003 in a packed conference room at the Grand Hyatt in Amman, Jordan. More than 300 executives had gathered from around the world to vie for a piece of...
View ArticleNot Mild-Mannered Enough
Clark Kent Ervin was stirring up trouble right until the end. Late last yearjust weeks before he was unceremoniously dismissed from his job as the chief internal watchdog for the Department of...
View ArticleMake Your Taxes Disappear!*
Editor's Note: For perspective on the debate over tax cuts and deficit fixes, a classic case study of how the tax code became a slush fund for corporate America.IN A SEASON OF campaign rallies and...
View ArticleThe Side Effects of Truth
DR. DAVID GRAHAM IS LOSING WEIGHT AGAIN. His wife noticed first, then his colleagues at the Food and Drug Administration. Graham is a skinny man, and when he drops weight, his cheekbones seem to sit...
View ArticleScrimmage on the Border
AT ITS SOUTHERN BORDER, where the United States of America ends in a tangle of barbed wire and manzanita bushes, the red dirt desert fills each night with thousands of men and women trudging north from...
View ArticleThe Artful Codger
ANYONE VISITING THE SENIOR center in Woodbridge, Virginia, on a Tuesday runs a serious risk of being ignored, Tuesday being the appointed day for the weekly Spanish lesson, the arts-and-crafts hour,...
View ArticleOn a Dream and a Prayer
WHEN YOU SPEND your days speaking to God, pleading and praising and focusing his will on the nation's political leadership, it's important to remember your dreams at night. They could be coded...
View ArticleBlood Money: A Story of Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq
The Bush administration's reconstruction of Iraq was a farce from the starta low-rent Marshall Plan conceived by a cast of ideological cronies with no unifying strategy and no real hope of success. As...
View ArticleGhost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program
Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program By Stephen Grey.St. Martin's Press. $25.95.The flight to hell is upholstered with leather seats. The passengers get headphones, hoods, and...
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