Enemy of the Week
Great Performances
3.22.02
Enemy Central goes to the movies — though the popcorn usually tastes fresher at a ball game.
Enemy Central goes to the movies — though the popcorn usually tastes fresher at a ball game.
Another senator pays for opposing Bush’s nominee. Also: Florida Dems stuck with Janet: Will Bill ride to the rescue? Plus: A major White House opening?
News reports that Nirvana-seeking terrorists may have smuggled three nuclear devices into America and are driving them around in vans waiting for word to detonate have no doubt unsettled many Americans.
On reading Allan Nevins, a paragon of post-FDR liberalism.
Could there be a more prima facie violation of the First Amendment than the media-McCain campaign finance bill?
Campaign finance reform fails to live up to ABC’s expectations.
The playboy internationalists at the U.N. are running out of entertainment dollars. They’re hoping we can spare them some change.
Key events in fiction could be occurring right in your own backyard.
Feeling abandoned, Senate Republicans swallow a bitter campaign finance pill. Also: Whither Illinois? Armey succession.
The yakking about Andrea and Russell Yates merely filled a lull in the War on Terrorism.
Readers raise many new questions, including: Will Jesuit implosion destroy college sports as we know it? Can Arthur Andersen be replaced? What was behind Tipper?
The Saudi peace plan gets chopped up at Irving’s Delicatessen.
Massachusetts’ junior senator prepares to go it alone.
Why has so much written about the war against terrorism been so far off the mark? And why has so much of this stuff come from conservatives?
The twin shafts at Ground Zero should not be missed. But where is Rudy Giuliani to put an end to the nonsense Michael Bloomberg is planning for Central Park?
No one knows why Mrs. Gore thought about running — though it’s clear what other Democrats thought of the idea. Also: Found: a successor to Traficant.
Honesty and Kinsley. Whither Bill Maher? Chicago showdown.
Whether in the Yates case or the pedophilia scandal, our tendency is to look away from evil, hope for an easy fix, and ignore what doing good requires.
Jeff Bezos continues to prove that to the panderers go the spoils.
Time was Andrea Yates would have been hung with little thought; today we ask legitimate and important questions about her moral agency.
Hillary’s number one news source. John Edwards hangs out. Lott remains lost.
The only thing worse than the Big Five would be the Big Four.
Like its spectacular spring, the state’s politics this season are also normal, which is to say, unlike anything that has gone before.
Harrison’s Flowers is set in Bosnia, c. 1991, where only foreign news photographers are not insane.
In most arenas, TAP readers refuse to clown around, as this latest batch of letters confirms.