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Why the Duelfer Report's Finding That Iraq Had No Weapons of Mass Destruction Provides Justification for Having Attacked Iraq in Order to Rid It of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Oct 14, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Kerry a Bleeding Heart? Hardly Kerry a Bleeding Heart? Hardly

Thank you, George W. Bush, for trying to assure me that John Kerry is a liberal. Wish it were so.

Oct 12, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Bush’s Court Picks: Be Afraid. Very Afraid. Bush’s Court Picks: Be Afraid. Very Afraid.

Democrats haven't made much of what would happen to the courts should Bush win a second term.

Oct 7, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt

‘There Are No Innocents’ ‘There Are No Innocents’

An oppressive and beleaguered empire, a terrorist international, a storm raging in the world press about torture, right-wing Christians on the march against moral decline and the...

Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Cockburn

On the President’s Boast That He Knew Osama Bin Laden Rather Than Saddam Hussein Was Behind 9/1 On the President’s Boast That He Knew Osama Bin Laden Rather Than Saddam Hussein Was Behind 9/1

That's excellent. So tell us: Why did you
For months imply the opposite was true?
And why does Cheney (Nanny Dick) still flog

Oct 7, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Buck Stops in the Voting Booth The Buck Stops in the Voting Booth

It is difficult for members of the US Senate, where even the best are uncommonly proud, to admit that they are not always in the know. Perhaps that explains why Sen.

Oct 5, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

You Can’t Bomb Beliefs You Can’t Bomb Beliefs

Aaron Maté provided research assistance for this column.

Sep 30, 2004 / Column / Naomi Klein

Dumb and Dumber (and Dumber Still) Dumb and Dumber (and Dumber Still)

One problem with trying to write critically about this year's election coverage is that by choosing any single aspect of its manifold failures, one automatically does an injustic...

Sep 30, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman

Wonderland Wonderland

It is exasperating listening to the news as we approach this most important election. The coverage is all about comparing the length of the candidate's sentences. How many big wo...

Sep 30, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Why the Republicans Might Be Right That Osama bin Laden Is Rooting for John Kerry Why the Republicans Might Be Right That Osama bin Laden Is Rooting for John Kerry

Bin Laden is the name I bear,
And, modestly, I think it's fair
To say it's thought by spies and cops
Among all terrorists I'm tops.
And therefore it's a crying sha

Sep 30, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin