National Journal articles

Recent articles from National Journal

Correction.
November 17, 2001... An article about trade associations and non-dues revenue misstated the Biotechnology Industry Organization's policy on journalists who attend the group's annual convention (11/10/01, p. 3528). Journalists are not charged a registration fee.

Ashcroft's `trust-us' routine is getting a little stale. (Opening Argument).
November 17, 2001... More than 1,180 men, most of them Middle Eastern, have been locked up in connection with the September 11 mass murders with virtually no public disclosure of who they are, where they are, or what crimes or immigration violations they have been suspected of committing. A regulation is quietly...

Blair is wonderful. Would America like to keep him? (Wealth of Nations).(Tony Blair)
November 17, 2001... Americans have taken to lavishing extravagant praise on Tony Blair. Britain's prime minister remains popular at home, helped a good deal by the crazy suicidal tendencies of the enemy (the Tory party, not Al Qaeda), but this is nothing compared to the applause he gets in the United States....

Brand of the free: while the American military fights in Afghanistan, civilians wage a separate, but important, campaign in Washington: the war of information.
November 17, 2001... Last Sunday, The New York Times published a 4,200-word front-page story about the Bush Administration's efforts to manage wartime news and propaganda. The writer, Elizabeth Becker, reported that top U.S. officials, working in concert with the British government, are mounting "what may be the...

Educating the enemy? Law-abiding citizens want and need information, but the wealth of knowledge disseminated since September 11 may also be helping the bad guys. (Public Information).
November 17, 2001... On the 18th day of his new job as President Bush's director of homeland security, former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was deep in the thickets of an unexpected national emergency. Someone, or some group, was spreading one of the world's deadliest bioweapons through the U.S. mail, and a White...