As police fired rubber bullets through tear gas in Quebec City, many reporters echoed the claim that “free trade” promotes democracy. Meanwhile, protesters struggled to shed light on a key fact: The proposed hemispheric trade pact would...
01 July 2001
FREEP HERO
U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords
Not since the Nazi Party ascended to power with only a third of the vote in the early 1930’s has there been such a shameless political power grab as that of George W. Bush. Despite...
01 July 2001
AUSTIN — What a glorious year for the summer reading list! Enough gems to stock any list — fiction and non-, funny and tragic, sometimes both simultaneously; plus a perfect plethora of peppy public policy books.
But there are two...
01 May 2001
I still remember the shock of May 4, 1970 after hearing the news of the shootings at Kent State – the unnerving feeling that they were coming for me and my friends next -- as a Detroit 9th grade hippie greaser/MC5 listener/White Panther...
12 April 2001
When the Ameritrade company launched a $200 million marketing
drive to explain the joys of online trading in autumn 1999, a barrage of TV
commercials invited viewers to join in the fun. The news was bullish, and
the firm's motto -- "...
05 April 2001
It's not easy to look at ourselves as others might see us. For a
country, the need is especially acute in times of international crisis --
but that's when nationalism and other reflexive biases are most likely to
become pivotal....
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