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29 July 2005
Lance Armstrong and America: Harvey Wasserman Letter in Today's NYTimes
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Harvey Wasserman
To the Editor:
Thomas L. Friedman has chosen the right man in pointing to Lance Armstrong as a role model ("Learning From Lance," column, July 27). Armstrong's will and brilliance in overcoming cancer and winning seven Tours de...
29 July 2005
Thomas Friedman, Liberal Sadist?
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Norman Solomon
The acclaimed New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has often voiced enthusiasm for violent destruction by the U.S. government. Hidden in plain sight, his glee about such carnage is worth pondering.

Many people view...
29 July 2005
The function of political scandal
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Alexander Cockburn
Given the enormous disaster of the U.S. onslaught on Iraq, the monstrous suffering engendered by the occupation, the violence around the world that this same occupation has spawned, how strange it is that the counter-attack on the Bush...
28 July 2005
Speaking truth to Roberts
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Paul Loeb
From the moment the John Roberts nomination was announced, the media called it a done deal. NPR and the New York Times gushed over his humility, humor, and congeniality. With Roberts’s belief system barely mentioned, you’d think Bush had...
27 July 2005
John Roberts and the Federalist Society*
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- Sheesh, all I knew about John Roberts was that everyone says he has lovely manners -- and already I was prepared to be against him. Knee-jerk liberal? No, congratulations to the White House, Sen. John Cornyn, Fred Thompson...
26 July 2005
The AFL-CIO, CWC, SEIU, and tough SOBs
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- Solidarity Forev ... ooops, make that, Solidarity Later.

Organized labor is weak, but unorganized labor is a hell of a lot weaker. That's what's splitting the AFL-CIO. You may think this is none of...

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