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While the president has vowed to sign a tough campaign finance reform bill if it gets to his desk, the White House is working behind the scenes to kill it.
By Joan Walsh
February 13, 2002
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Clinton gives liberal fans an alternative view: Tough on terror, bullish on foreign aid -- and sharp on why the right hates him so.
By Joan Walsh
January 30, 2002
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The Fox News house pundit and Iran-Contra scandal survivor spars with Salon's news editor over Bush, Clinton, bin Laden and whether his own Contra allies were terrorists.
By Joan Walsh
January 28, 2002
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Ralph Nader's new book makes it painfully clear that he has no idea how to build a left-wing alternative to the Democrats. But when you're pure of heart and unsullied by politics, who cares?
By Joan Walsh
January 17, 2002
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"Osama: The Movie" was weird and chilling -- but not in the way the administration said.
By Joan Walsh
December 14, 2001
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Anthrax deaths, straying bombs and squabbling politicians -- every day, things get a bit worse. Meanwhile, the president promotes his pen pal plan.
By Joan Walsh
October 26, 2001
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DeRogatis bashes McCartney! Walsh bashes DeRogatis! Lipton bashes Jackson! Readers bash 'em all!
October 25, 2001
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New York's finest got the party they deserved on Saturday night --
and if you don't think so, you know what you can kiss.
By Joan Walsh
October 23, 2001
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The Bush team doesn't want you to see his video. Instead of censoring him, why isn't the administration trying to combat his appeal around the world?
By Joan Walsh
October 12, 2001
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"The West Wing" preaches the obvious in its "bold" special episode.
By Joan Walsh
October 4, 2001
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When the Rev. Jerry Falwell blamed the ACLU and other liberals for Tuesday's attack, he proved he's America's answer to the Taliban. But that doesn't mean there's no place for God in our expressions of national mourning.
By Joan Walsh
September 14, 2001
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One leader has risen to the awful occasion
-- and, so far, it hasn't been President Bush.
By Joan Walsh
September 12, 2001
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The current Bush presidency seems even less equipped than the last one to grapple with an economic bust.
By Joan Walsh
September 11, 2001
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The San Francisco Giants' All-Star second baseman got off easy for
blasting Barry Bonds to Sports Illustrated, because the media likes
him and hates Bonds. Could race (say it isn't so!) have anything to
do with it?
By Joan Walsh
August 30, 2001
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The congressman's colleagues should have demanded he come clean about Chandra Levy right away. Instead, they're still defending his stonewalling.
By Joan Walsh
July 13, 2001
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The Andrew Sullivan and Jenna Bush stories raise one of the toughest questions in journalism: When is it acceptable to reveal the private lives of public figures?
By Joan Walsh
June 5, 2001
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President Bush downplayed his own drinking problem and hid a DUI. Now his daughters are making news for underage drinking. Is there a connection?
By Joan Walsh
May 31, 2001
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Trying to burnish his "compassionate" image, the president is now quoting Dorothy Day. Who's next -- Mother Jones?
By Joan Walsh
May 22, 2001
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Or: How one Giants fan learned to stop worrying and love Barry Bonds, just in time to appreciate his 500th home run.
By Joan Walsh
April 18, 2001
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A San Francisco schools activist critiques Salon's Edison Charter Academy coverage, and Joan Walsh replies.
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April 9, 2001
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With news that the very recount he stopped would have confirmed a Bush victory, the president's closest ally on the U.S. Supreme Court turns out to have been his worst enemy.
By Joan Walsh
April 4, 2001
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An ideological crusade aims to close a school that's worked miracles with poor black and Latino students. Why? It's a for-profit Edison school.
By Joan Walsh
March 29, 2001
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Who says this surplus-squandering hothead is "conservative"?
By Joan Walsh
March 16, 2001
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By refusing to run his ad blasting reparations for slavery, cringing campus journalists are giving the racial provocateur publicity that money can't buy.
By Joan Walsh
March 9, 2001
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Former President Clinton's disgraceful exit raises an awful possibility: Maybe he was as morally bankrupt as his right-wing enemies said.
By Joan Walsh
February 23, 2001