Reagan’s Politics of Passion
Rest assured that the radical reworking of history that America witnessed in the hours after Ronald Reagan died Saturday at age 93 will be temporary.
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June 21, 2004 Issue
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Editorial
Passings
The old left lost a stalwart and The Nation a friend when William Reuben died recently at age 89. Reuben, whose books include The Atom Spy Hoax and The Honora...
The Maxwell Affair
Last November Foreign Affairs, the prestigious journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, published a review of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atroci...
Election Matters
On the day Senator John Kerry gave a Big Speech on national security, Win Without War--a coalition of forty-two antiwar organizations--called for the Administration to set a s...
Time to Leave
We have paid a heavy price for the Bush Administration's unnecessary and illegal invasion of Iraq: more than 800 American soldiers dead; more than 4,500 wounded or maimed; and...
Column
Kerry’s Dance
It may have the ring of cliché, but America's next presidential election will be among the most crucial events in contemporary history.
Desperately Seeking Health Insurance
As crises go, medical insurance is not a very sexy one.
Letters
Letters
David Cole and Jonathan Schell and Our Readers and Abraham Brumberg
Books & the Arts
The Invisibles
When you go to the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, you expect the screen to be a window onto the world.
The ‘I’ of the Beholder
About fifteen years ago, looking for something to play on my college radio station, I cued up a reel-to-reel tape I'd found in a pile by the wall--and fell in love.
Don’t Worry, Be Happy
David Brooks is a writer whose chief claim to fame is not what he says but where he says it.
The Irresistible Rise of Berlusconi
Dressed up as a tropical dictator in a sketch by the great Italian political cartoonist Altan, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi wears a double-breasted camouflage jacket, a go...
