July 19, 2004 Issue
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Features
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Dean Debates Nader
Dean advises quitting. Nader calls him "a detergent for the dirty linen of the Democratic Party."
John Nichols
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Senate WMD Report Whacks CIA, Not Bush
The panel says there was no immediate threat from Iraq.
David Corn
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Ken Lay, Enron and the US Public
Lay's belated indictment reminds one of the limp response of Washington politics.
William Greider
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Cautious Kerry Chooses Charisma
Never let it be said that John Kerry rushes to judgement.
John Nichols
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The News From Planet Falluja
As the siege drags on, this insurgent stronghold descends into chaos.
Christian Parenti
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German Greens and Pax Europa
Joschka Fischer envisions a European alternative to American hegemony.
Paul Hockenos
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Incarceration, Inc.
Private prisons thrive on cheap labor and the hunger of job-starved towns.
Sasha Abramsky
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Editorials
Fighting Israel’s Wall
The International Court of Justice has ruled Israel's "Separation Wall" illegal and has called on Israel to dismantle the wall.
Ann Petter
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Out With Gerrymanders!
This April, in the case of Vieth v. Jubelirer, the Supreme Court came close to burying any hope of curing one of the worst diseases in our ailing democracy--the partisan gerrymander.
Herman Schwartz
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True Patriotism
The Fourth of July is traditionally a time for reading the Declaration of Independence and listening to patriotic speeches.
Eric Foner
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SweatX Closes Up Shop
The pilot manufacturing factory for SweatX, the noble anti-sweatshop brand that aspired to prove that fully unionized and even worker-owned garment factories can thrive in a sea of sweatshops, qu
Peter Dreier and Richard Appelbaum
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A No to Media Monopoly
Media monopolists were dealt a rare setback when the Philadelphia-based US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit blocked implementation of last year's decision by the Federal Communications Comm
John Nichols
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Election Matters
The striking distinction between the Green Party's national gathering in late June and the Democratic and Republican national conventions, which will come later this summer, was the element of su
John Nichols
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No Blank Check
"A state of war is not a blank check for the President." The Bush Administration's claims "would turn our system of checks and balances on its head." "If civil rights are to be curtailed during w
David Cole
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Mission Accomplished II?
With furtive haste, former Coalition Provisional Authority administrator Paul Bremer declared the end of the US occupation at a virtually secret ceremony and bolted for the door, enclosed in the
the Editors
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Columns
Fact of the Matter Is That Facts Didn’t Matter
The Senate panel's report is a damning indictment of the Bush Doctrine.
Robert Scheer
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The VA, Vanity and Duragesic
Dr. Marc regularly answers readers' questions on matters relating to medicine, healthcare and politics. To send a query, click here.
Dr. Marc Siegel
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Even a Tyrant Is Entitled to Due Process
Hussein's trial is shaping up as just US theatrics.
Robert Scheer
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Moore 1, Media 0
I had a swell time at Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore's documentary about George Bush's dubious progress from Florida to Iraq.
Katha Pollitt
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On the Prime-Time Schedule for the Republican National Convention
The wacko right has mostly just disdain
For Schwarzenegger, Rudy and McCain.
But they'll be featured at the prime-time mike
As just the sort of folks swing voters like.Calvin Trillin
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Books and the Arts
Body and Soul
In the 1960s, the New York Jewish Museum became the unlikely leading venue for contemporary avant-garde art in America.
Arthur C. Danto
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Requiem for a Dream
In a cluster of beach bungalows in Ghana in December 2000, my wife and I encountered the Peace Corps dream.
Matt Steinglass
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The Rootless Cosmopolitan
This essay appears as the foreword to Edward Said's From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map, which will be published in August by Pantheon.
Tony Judt
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Moore 1, Media 0
I had a swell time at Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore's documentary about George Bush's dubious progress from Florida to Iraq.
Katha Pollitt
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True Patriotism
The Fourth of July is traditionally a time for reading the Declaration of Independence and listening to patriotic speeches.
Eric Foner
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What Are They Reading?
It's the first three chapters of Yuri Olesha's Envy that really bite, that really get across the impotent sting of the emotion.
Nicholas Jahr
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Letters
Iraq, Love It or Leave It
We invited readers to respond to our May 24 forum, edited by Scott Sherman, of eleven writers discussing "How to Get Out of Ira
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