Articles by Richard Cummings

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News for Sale

A Washington Post ditty to the tune of Cole Porter's 'Love for Sale.'

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7/3/2009

The Greatest Financial Scandal in American History

Richard Cummings on why the Fed keeps it secret.

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3/12/2009

There’s Something Rotten in Alaska

Richard Cummings smells a rat.

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10/10/2008

Share-the-Wealth Sarah

Richard Cummings on Palin Peron.

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9/24/2008

Kristol Clear

Richard Cummings on why the NY Times hired yet another neocon.

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12/31/2007

She Is Woman, She Is Invincible

Richard Cummings on Hillary.

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11/16/2007

The Great Decider

With apologies to The Platters.

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4/20/2006

The Judge Who Listened to Aquinas

Rather than Bush.

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1/6/2006

My Fellow Sleazebags

Cheney speaks for DeLay.

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12/5/2005

Juan Peron Advises W

Richard Cummings on a few things in common.

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10/4/2005

Noah Seeks Out Bush

About that flood…

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9/9/2005

The Sunnis, the Shi’ites, and Kurds

Richard Cummings is our anti-Kipling.

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8/24/2005

About Those Persians

Alexander the Great catches up with George the Osama Slayer.

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8/22/2005

Yogi Catches Up to W

Richard Cummings on two comedians.

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8/16/2005

George Meets Adolf

Richard Cumming on an historic summit.

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8/9/2005

Aristotle Talks to George

Richard Cummings on intelligent design.

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8/4/2005

What Is To Be Done?

Richard Cummings on reforming the Cheney-Bush regime.

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7/18/2005

Send in the Clowns

Richard Cummings on US foreign policy, with apologies to Stephen Sondheim.

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6/18/2005

Why Not Socks?

Satire on the autarkists from Richard Cummings.

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4/21/2005

Benito and Baba Wawa

Richard Cummings on Mussolini and the Republican foreign policy.

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3/15/2005

Don’t It Make Your Red States Blue

Richard Cummings interviews a noted hawk congressman.

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1/12/2005

‘Hail the Conquering Hero’

Richard Cummings on the comedy that helps explain US politics.

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10/5/2004

Empire To Enlist Foreigners in the Legions

And make them citizens, says Richard Cummings.

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9/29/2004

The House of Kennedy vs. the House of Bush

Richard Cummings on the real struggle.

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8/4/2004

Marshall Law in Iraq

Marshall Law III, that is.

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6/19/2004

A War in One Act

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5/17/2004

Trump Fires Everyone

Richard Cummings on the solution to the federal government.

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4/19/2004

The Politics of Gay Marriage

Senators Kerry, Kennedy to wed, says satirist Richard Cummings.

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3/8/2004

Bull and Scones

Richard Cummings on a certain secret society.

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2/18/2004

Dershowitz To Represent Saddam

Richard Cummings is kidding, isn't he?

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1/17/2004

Turtles All the Way Down

Richard Cummings on flat-earth America.

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12/6/2003

The Incredible Hulk

Meets the fat, stupid towel head.

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11/11/2003

Autocentricity

Richard Cummings on cars and votes.

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10/9/2003

Attack Sicily!

Al Cibiades on Larry King Live.

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8/30/2003

Dr. Livingston, I Presume

Dubya in the Heart of Darkness.

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7/8/2003

Truth to Power

Nope. Richard Cummings on big media.

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6/30/2003

With Monty Python in Iraq

Looking for the elusive WMDs.

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6/27/2003

Missing WMDs?

Clouseau’s on the case, says Richard Cummings.

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6/10/2003

Wars, Lies, and WMDs

Richard Cummings on intelligence and the administration.

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5/22/2003

La Guerre N’est Pas Finie

Quelles consequences, mon Dieu!

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4/24/2003

Oedipus Tex

A tragedy by Richard Cummings.

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4/14/2003

Is ‘National Review’ a CIA Front?

Richard Cummings wonders.

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3/24/2003

Sharpton for President

He's clearly the best choice, says Richard Cummings.

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3/15/2003

Diary of a Madman

He has the keys to war or peace in his hands alone. Article by Richard Cummings.

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3/10/2003

The Goose That Laid Golden Eggs

Until the envious grabbed him.

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2/17/2003

Carving Up the Pie

The planetary pie. Richard Cummings on Andrew Bracevich's American Empire.

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2/11/2003

The Client List of Kissinger Associates

A peek into the establishment, by Richard Cummings.

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12/21/2002

The Magnificent 30

The CIA goes after bin Laden, sort of.

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11/23/2002

Out the Arabists

Richard Cummings on the latest chapter in the war on terror.

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11/16/2002

Dessert Storm

Iran, Iraq, whatever. Richard Cummings remembers how the US government got us into this mess.

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10/9/2002