‘We Lie. We Decide.’ ‘We Lie. We Decide.’

TIM RUSSERT: But, Senator, when you testified before the Senate, you talked about some of the hearings you had observed at the Winter Soldiers meeting, and you said that peop

Sep 2, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman

Economic Bad Boys Economic Bad Boys

When the "scrawny boy from Austria" delivered his peroration against faint-hearted "economic girlie men," it was an unusually seductive, even witty, appeal to a notion of free en...

Sep 2, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

A Suggestion as America Begins Preparations for The Next Olympics A Suggestion as America Begins Preparations for The Next Olympics

We might provoke less violent demonstrations
If we invaded slightly fewer nations.

Sep 2, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Will Labor Come Back? Will Labor Come Back?

Labor Day has never been a very inspiring holiday, established as it was by late-nineteenth-century union bosses as a homegrown alternative to May Day, which was viewed as having...

Sep 2, 2004 / Liza Featherstone

Poverty in the Suburbs Poverty in the Suburbs

Hidden in a Census Bureau report on poverty released in late August is a factoid with significant political and social consequences. Poverty has moved to the suburbs.

Sep 2, 2004 / Peter Dreier

Gay GOPers Crash Party Gay GOPers Crash Party

Being a gay or lesbian Republican isn't easy. Social conservatives condemn your "homosexual lifestyle," while your friends (and lovers) on the left see you as part of the antigay...

Sep 2, 2004 / Christopher Lisotta

Defying Convention Defying Convention

This article draws on reporting by Eyal Press, Esther Kaplan and Katha Pollitt.

Sep 2, 2004 / Liza Featherstone

The GOP Hijacks 9/11 The GOP Hijacks 9/11

More than a thousand days have passed since September 11, 2001, yet the wounds are still raw.

Sep 2, 2004 / The Editors

Zig Zag Zell Wigs Out Zig Zag Zell Wigs Out

Former Congressman Ben Jones had it right when he said last month, "I think that the devil has got into Zell Miller, and he needs an exorcist." Zell "Zig Zag" Miller's vicious k...

Sep 2, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Letters Letters

SIZE DOESN'T MATTER...

Washington, DC

Sep 2, 2004 / Peter Dreier, Our Readers, and Richard Appelbaum