Nation Note
With this issue, Liza Featherstone joins the masthead as a contributing editor.
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June 28, 2004 Issue
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Editorial
Solidarity in Wartime
In a Service Employees union hall in Boston, a hospital worker raises her hand.
Outlaws on Torture
The "war on terrorism" is in trouble, and at the very moment the Bush Administration needs it most--election season. George W.
Beloved by the Media
Ronald Reagan lived a charmed life in many respects, none more so than in his relationship with the news media.
Cold War to Star Wars
Perhaps the most important question--for present policy-makers as well as historians--posed by the presidency of Ronald Reagan is what role he played in ending the cold war.
The Gipper’s Economy
The Gipper had a certain goofiness about him that was impossible not to like. He told "war stories" borrowed from old movies with such sincerity you were sure he must have bee...
A Flawed Resolution
With its blueprint for Iraq in tatters, the Bush Administration has been forced to recognize the United Nations as the only body that can confer legitimacy on its continued oc...
The Reagan Legacy
It's as if Gore Vidal coined the phrase "United States of Amnesia" for the moment of Ronald Reagan's death.
Column
To See or Not to See
Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority recently announced a new policy of stopping people "randomly" to request identification from those whom police believe to b...
Reagan in Truth and Fiction
Nixon thought Reagan was "strange" and, so he told the secret tape recorder in the Oval Office in 1972, "just an uncomfortable man to be around." The late President certainly ...
Feature
Books & the Arts
Morning Ritual
Before the pork buns steamed in the pot,
moisture in their white folds, before
the dried tofu was trimmed into thin strips,
Le Gai Savoir
"Paris is a very old story," Henry James wrote in 1878--so old, in fact, that it's hard to write about it without falling into clichés about chestnut trees, couture<...
Ugly Beauty
In the fall of 1958, the second book by a young British poet named Philip Larkin made it across the ocean and into the consciousness of American poetry.
On Native Ground
I've long considered E.L. Doctorow the most American of contemporary writers--in a particularly classic sense.
