June 21, 2004 Issue
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Features
Bolivia’s Indian Revolt
The US policies of economic globalization and militarization are failing.
Tom Hayden
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Orange Alert at Sebago
The quest for homeland security is heading, in ad hoc fashion, toward the quasi militarization of everyday life.
William Greider
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Under the Banner of the ‘War’ on Terror
A political slogan is not a strategy for national defense.
William Greider
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Editorials
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.
John Nichols
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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 Honorable Mr.
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Dealing the Drug Cards
This article represents Trudy Lieberman's personal views, not those of Consumers Union.
Trudy Lieberman
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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 Atrocity and Accountabilit
Scott Sherman
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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 specific date for the
David Corn
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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 $120 billion wasted
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Columns
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.
Eric Alterman
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Desperately Seeking Health Insurance
As crises go, medical insurance is not a very sexy one.
Katha Pollitt
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The United States Describes the Wonders of Sovereignty to the Iraqi People
You'll have a government real soon.
You'll see democracy writ large.
We promised sovereignty. It's yours.
And worry not: We're still in charge.Calvin Trillin
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Books and 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.
Stuart Klawans
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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.
Douglas Wolk
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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.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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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 goony grin on his face
Frederika Randall
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Letters
Letters
PEOPLE'S HISTORY: NO TO WAR
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David Cole, Jonathan Schell, Our Readers and Abraham Brumberg