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Gore Vidal

Contributing Editor

Nation contributing editor Gore Vidal is a prolific novelist, playwright and essayist, and one of the great stylists of contemporary American prose. Author of more than two dozen books, his 1993 collected essays United States won a National Book Award. Recent books include Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta , Imperial America and Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir.

Currently

  • Dennis Kucinich

    November 8, 2007

    A farsighted populist and pacifist.

  • Ferdinand VII

    April 26, 2007

    Whose astonishing wisdom led to preserving a statue of the monstrous Ferdinand VII in Havana?

2006

  • President Jonah

    January 25, 2006

    As his State of the Union message approaches, we deserve a rest from the fundamentalist presidency of G.W. Bush, whose guiding principles are antithetical to democracy and will only accelerate our decline.

2005

  • Something Rotten in Ohio

    June 9, 2005

    Voting irregularities in the 2004 election demonstrate the urgency of election reform.

2004

2003

  • We Are the Patriots

    May 15, 2003 Subscribe

    Americans who oppose the Cheney-Bush junta demonstrate sanity, not cowardice.

2002

2001

2000

  • Democratic Vistas

    December 21, 2000

    What will the next four years bring? With luck, total gridlock.

1999

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