PrintEditions – Page 784

The full-grown shrub is not a pretty sight

January 23, 2004

Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America By Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose Random House, 2003 Hardcover, 347 pp., $24.95 First Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose looked at George W. Bush’s disastrous impact on Texas when...

Build unity to take back our country in 2004

January 23, 2004

Opinion A consensus is forming that progress in meeting human needs in our country is impossible as long as George W. Bush remains in the White House and the extremist Republicans control all three branches of...

Arnold Becchetti, CPUSA leader

January 16, 2004

Arnold Becchetti, former national organization secretary and national treasurer of the Communist Party USA, died suddenly Dec. 27 while visiting family. He was 78 years old. Arnold Becchetti served as CPUSA national organization secretary from 1974...

Book review: Speaking of wars

January 16, 2004

War Talk By Arundhati Roy Published by South End Press 2003 Softcover, 142 pages, $12 Even after I first heard Arundhati Roy speak I wasn’t sure what her politics were. I knew she had leftist perspectives;...

Cold Mountain and my summer vacation (a review)

January 16, 2004

Cold Mountain is a good movie, based on a good book by Charles Frazier. I think most reviewers missed the most important thing about the movie – it is movingly anti-war at a time when the...