Jesse Helms

Can't we all just get along? Can't we all just get along?

As Biden and Clinton say goodbye, the Senate's Democratic majority girds for ... collegiality.
  • Great moments in political race-baiting

    Willie Horton hears a who: Beck, Limbaugh are the latest in a long and undistinguished American tradition
  • Let us now praise Jesse Helms

    Yes, he was hellspawn, but the left owes a great debt to the late, unlamented (racist, homophobic) senator.
  • Jesse Helms is not dead

    His politics and his methods live on -- among liberals as well as conservatives.
  • The bitter legacy of Jesse Helms

    There's a reason why so many Americans can't feel charitable about the passing of the virulent warrior of the Right.
  • Jesse Helms dies on July 4th

    Former Republican N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86.
  • 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.
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