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Feature
Weldon’s Wild Ride
The wheels are falling off Curt Weldon’s electoral wagon, as the wacky Pennsylvania Republican finds himself mired in a criminal investigation.
Ari Berman
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Election Night From Hell
As Fox News marks its tenth birthday, recall the fateful night in November 2000 that its election desk broke all the rules reporting the election of George W. Bush. Will Fox do it again this year?
David W. Moore
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Playing Politics at School
Casting himself as tough on school crime as election day nears, Kentucky Republican Representative Geoff Davis is pushing a measure that puts the constitutional right of students at risk.
Hasdai Westbrook
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What’s Wrong With this Picture?
FCC commissioners heard testimony in New York this week about how media consolidation stifles diversity, grassroots community and the creativity of independent musicians and artists.
Kristal Brent Zook
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The Moral Minimum
As the lagging minimum wage is being turned into a moral issue instead of an economic one, states are beginning to act where the federal government has not.
Sasha Abramsky
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Guardian of the Ballot Box
Ion Sancho, an election supervisor in Florida, is dedicated to creating a fair and accurate voting system. But his passion has nearly cost him his job.
Andrew Gumbel
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SNAP!
A unique student-run organization is making real strides mobilizing progressive voters for victory in the long haul.
Sam Graham-Felsen
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Lamont vs. Lieberman, Round 2
Lamont now lags behind Liebermans, but the Connecticut electorate is so volatile that the outcome is far from certain.
Bruce Shapiro
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Editorial
Reproductive Rights on the Line in South Dakota
An initiative that seeks to overturn South Dakota’s draconian ban on abortion will have implications in states across the country.
Kate Michelman
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Pat Tillman’s Legacy
As the elections approach, a former soldier, grieving the friendly-fire death of his brother in combat, asks: How has the most respected country in the world become so irrational, belligerent, feared and distrusted?
Kevin Tillman
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Soldiers of Conscience
A peace activist argues that if soldiers like Lieut. Ehren Watada succeed in convincing the courts that they have a right to refuse to fight in unjust and illegal wars, the world will be a different place.
Staughton Lynd
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Rich’s Stealth Campaign
Howard Rich is pouring big money into leveraging our electoral system to serve his libertarian agenda.
Peter Schrag
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Downsized but Not Out
United Professionals, a new organization for college-educated workers at risk in a global economy, is joining the movement for economic justice.
Barbara Ehrenreich and Tamara Draut
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The War and the Election
Ending the Iraq War is the most pressing issue facing America today. I
The Editors
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Column
Enron’s Enablers
Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling would have remained small time crooks were it not for the energy industry deregulation measures they effectively purchased from Bush I and II.
Robert Scheer
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Baseball in the Ashes
The last time the Detroit Tigers faced the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, the Motor City was literally aflame. What’s evident this time is that the city never rose from the ashes.
Dave Zirin
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Useful Idiots
Why did America’s so-called liberal media find it so easy to support Bush’s Iraq disaster? You won’t find answers in the US media: Try The London Review of Books.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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Show Him the Money
Diversity can be cringe-making, arbitrary, insincere and sappy. But take it away and you won’t get more equality–you’ll only get more privilege.
Katha Pollitt
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The Myth of Microloans
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus has helped a lot of poor women, but the basic problem in developing countries is landlessness. A $130 microloan won’t solve that problem.
Alexander Cockburn
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A Short History of ‘Cut and Run,’ Using the George W. Bush Definition
From ‘Nam to Lebanon, the Gulf War and, um, Texas.
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Election Night From Hell
As Fox News marks its tenth birthday, recall the fateful night in November 2000 that its election desk broke all the rules reporting the election of George W. Bush. Will Fox do it again this year?
David W. Moore
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Soldiers of Conscience
A peace activist argues that if soldiers like Lieut. Ehren Watada succeed in convincing the courts that they have a right to refuse to fight in unjust and illegal wars, the world will be a different place.
Staughton Lynd
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The Queen Is Dead
Reviews from the New York Film Festival, including Marie Antoinette, Climate, 49 Up and more.
Stuart Klawans
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Death in the Family
Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost represents one man’s search to find the truth about himself, his family and the Holocaust.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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A Rebel in Defense of Tradition
As composer Steve Reich turns 70, he is winning recognition from the classical establishment for the creativity and power ever-present in his music.
David Schiff
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Letters