Jesse Helms

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Controversial Bush judge broke ethics law
A Salon/CIR investigation reveals that Terrence Boyle, a key circuit court nominee touted by the White House and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, ruled in multiple cases involving corporations in which he held investments.
The empire strikes back
John Bolton, a man who doesn't believe in diplomacy and thinks the U.S. should be the only permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, gets yet another chance to wield his stick.
The other regime change
Did the Bush administration allow a network of right-wing Republicans to foment a violent coup in Haiti?
That old-time "Southern strategy"
How President Bush sent a message with his court appointments.
Jesse Helms: Web radio's hero
Small Internet radio broadcasters on the brink of financial disaster have won some breathing room, thanks to the senator from North Carolina.
Bush's hatchet man in the State Department
While Colin Powell tries to present a kinder, gentler America to the world, his hard-line underling John Bolton is pushing an America-über-alles doctrine -- and winning.
How the media downplayed Jesse Helms' racism
David Broder attacked reporters for ignoring Helms' racist career in covering his retirement last week. So why was Broder mum on the topic when Helms was riding high?
Social absurdity
Republicans are now playing the race card to try to sell Social Security privatization.
Goodbye, Senator Know-nothing
Jesse Helms trashed the U.N. and drove our allies nuts. And the Bush team will keep his go-it-alone ideology alive even after he leaves office.
So long, Jesse
Gloria Steinem, Kweisi Mfume, Phyllis Schlafly and other political observers applaud and mourn the departure of Jesse Helms.
High noon for the morning-after pill
With the medical establishment pushing to make it available over the counter, and anti-abortion groups fighting to stop it, little-known emergency contraception could be the next battle in the reproductive wars.
Clinton grows a spine
The president surprises his critics by, at the last possible moment, signing on to the treaty for an International Criminal Court.
The U.N.'s millennium bash
President Clinton shakes Fidel Castro's hand and sits in on a speech by Iran's president at the organization's P.R. bonanza.
Another Republican hatchet job
The latest leaked charges against Al Gore are more the product of partisan politics than any new hard evidence.
Immune from prosecution
U.S. diplomats are wrecking the chance to bring future Saddam Husseins to justice -- all for the sake of domestic politics.
All this useful beauty
The hottest art show in America is never better than Tom Cruise in his underwear. Wouldn't a nice Kate Spade handbag be so much more practical?
Blame Canada? Hell, let's declare war!
It's a vile, cold, wooded wasteland populated with propaganda-spewing lumberjacks and their irritating ilk. Who needs it?
The trouble with the Whitneys
Artwork that slams Rudy Giuliani's reaction to "Sensation" leads to a little dynastic squabble that may cause the family to withdraw its name -- and not-so-little fortune -- from the museum.
Pols, guns and androgyny
A speed-of-light cultural flyover covering McCain, Koresh, guns, Hillary, "G.I. Blues," a heartfelt appeal to the Winslet Brigade, "Star Trek" and, well, you get the idea.
Psychic hot tip: Mariah and Bill in Y2K
The spirits speak: More young stuff for the prez in 2000; eyes off my tush, says Michael Caine; Posh Spice's hubby likes to get into her knickers. Plus: Actress Patsy Kensit took who to bed?
And now a word from our readers
Welcome to the First Annual Nothing Personal Readers' Choice Awards! Where you dish the gossip and I go on vacation!
A confederacy of dunces
The GOP-led Congress has pushed the United States to the brink of losing its vote in the United Nations.
"House on Haunted Hill"
Where evil has a modem and looks like black calamari.
Return of the ugly American
President Clinton's choice of Carol Moseley-Braun as ambassador to New Zealand elevates a hypocrite who put her fianci's financial gain ahead of concern for human-rights violations.
Letters to the Editor
Tell Cintra an underground culture still exists -- but she won't find it at a Details party! Plus: Amazon.com vs. Amazon; don't obsess over tot's penis grabbing.
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