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Ten years ago, when Al Gore first published his book on the environment, Earth in the Balance, some of his Senate colleagues believed it was so radical it would ruin his career. President George H.W. Bush called him “ozone man,” and claimed, “This guy is so far out in the environmental extreme, we’ll be up […]

Just how wrong is one of the many surprising and disturbing revelations that emerge from Globalization and Its Discontents. Part memoir, part primer, part polemic, Joseph Stiglitz’s book recounts the crises that devastated the world economy in the past decade. A former chairman of Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist of the […]

It is of course unthinkable that Hillary Clinton may have actually revealed something of her true self in Living History. As someone who knows Hillary personally–as I do every other living First Lady–I believe she does. Living History is not only a pleasure to read–an articulate, well-written, and detail-rich account of the Clintons’ historic time […]

Just how wrong is one of the many surprising and disturbing revelations that emerge from Globalization and Its Discontents. Part memoir, part primer, part polemic, Joseph Stiglitz’s book recounts the crises that devastated the world economy in the past decade. A former chairman of Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist of the […]

This was my introduction to eBay, the wildly successful online auction service that gives new meaning to the phrase “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” In the market for a talking necktie, a porcelain pig, or a beer helmet? Odds are that a brief search will yield what you’re seeking. But far from being […]

Unfortunately, Washington’s energy lobbyists understood this dynamic all too clearly. And when President Bush assumed office, they wasted little time blocking this new momentum toward cleaner air by persuading the administration that the problem wasn’t the polluters, but our anti-pollution laws. It wasn’t a hard sell. The Bush administration quickly set about weakening the Clean […]

Do you believe that “Americans across the country are shamefully being denied their Constitutional right to vote” and that “we haven’t come as far since the early days of the Civil Rights movement as we often let ourselves believe?” Are you “not for spending the whole surplus on tax cuts for the rich, not for […]

Booth was only one of scores of Americans who complained of allergic reactions to corn products during the summer and fall of 2000, when news broke that traces of genetically engineered StarLink corn had found their way onto grocery store shelves. But conspicuously absent from Hart’s terrifying introduction are several important details that seriously undermine […]

In truth, Kerrey could never have been elected president. Not in 1992 when he ran a diffident and unfocused primary campaign against Bill Clinton, not in 2000 when he yielded to the realities of political fund-raising, and not in 2004 had he stayed in the Senate. For Kerrey, who had lost part of a leg […]

In Supreme Command, Eliot A. Cohen, professor and director of strategic studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, offers a look at the matter of civilian control of the military. Mercifully, his book enjoys a brevity that his title lacks. Cohen, who writes with concision and insight, […]