AUSTIN, Texas -- Welcome to George W. Bush's world of fuzzy policy thinking. If you find yourself confused, befuddled or confounded by his recent proposals, don't worry about a thing. You understand them perfectly. They just don't make...
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01 February 2001
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil -- The question, from a participant here at
the World Social Forum, was polite and understated: "Sometimes, one wonders
if the poor political consciousness and the lack of information about the
world of the standard...
30 January 2001
AUSTIN, Texas -- Now that Texas and George W. Bush have parted company, things are looking up deep in the heart. In fact, a positively astonishing number of good bills actually have a chance of passing this session, and I think we owe it...
28 January 2001
AUSTIN, Texas -- Haven't had so much fun reading a book since I was 12 and found "The Three Musketeers."
Thomas Frank's One Market, Under God is a populist romp over the most delicious idiocies of the past decade. The obligatory...
25 January 2001
LUBBOCK, Texas -- I'm back where most of the world is sky, the people are wonderful, and the water tastes funny. We are on Day Five of the Restoration and, ooops, not looking good.
Of special concern out here is the confirmation of Ann...
24 January 2001
FREEP HEROES
Demonstrators at the TABD in Cincinnati
In November, the heroic struggle against undemocratic corporate globalism continued in Cincinnati when people took to the streets to expose the Trans-Atlantic...