100 Facts and 1 Opinion

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Judd Legum

Children of Privilege

George W. Bush and I have one thing in common: Our father's friends did us favors--and came to regret it.

Meredith Michaels

Nader’s Flawed Calculus

Nader backers support Kerry more than Bush, Nation Institute poll shows.

John Nichols

Nader Voters Do Favor Kerry

Survey finds risk of swaying election to Bush major concern of Nader backers

The Nation

Poor Plans for Healthcare

As neither candidate seems to be aware, healthcare is increasingly available only to those who can pay.

Trudy Lieberman

Art Makes a Difference

The Bush era has seen an explosion of sharply political creativity.

Alisa Solomon

Why I’m (Slightly) for Bush

The election season is always hellish for people who fancy that they live by political principles, because at such a time "politics" becomes, even more than usually, a matter of show business and

Christopher Hitchens

Why I’m for Kerry

George W. Bush said Saddam Hussein's brutal regime had chemical and biological weapons and a revived nuclear weapons program. It did not.

David Corn

Straight Down the Middle

Not being "middle class," the poor have been invisible in this campaign.

Eyal Press

Plotting an Ohio Surprise

Philosophy student Julian Johannesen and photographer Cosby Lindquist have been encamped in the neighborhoods of Columbus, Ohio, for more than a year.

David Moberg

Under the Veil, Who’s for Kerry?

Many Arab-American voters loathe Bush, but they have little love for his rival.

Gary Younge

A Long Four Years in Midland

Bush's hometown is still behind him, but not with the enthusiasm of 2000.

Russell Cobb

The Issue Left Behind

Why the candidates won't talk about education.

Linda Perlstein

First Nations in the 21st Century

The largest gathering ever of Native Americans in the nation's capital greets the opening of the NMAI.

Habiba Alcindor

The Rehnquist Election

This election is a referendum on William Rehnquist's Supreme Court.

Bruce Shapiro

In Fact…

FIVE-OH FOR THE OBSERVER

the Editors

John Kerry for President

The presidential campaign debates are over, and the time for decision has come. The Nation endorses Senator John Kerry to be the next President of the United States.

the Editors

Losing it

In Senate races across the country, Republicans are falling behind.

John Nichols

The Blood Red Moon

Apocalyptic language intensifies, but the election may be less definitive than many think.

William Greider

The Man Behind the Oval Office Curtain

It's Cheney's Administration, and it's a shame.

Robert Scheer

Mary Cheney, Mary Cheney

Reservists mutiny in Iraq, old people keel over standing in line for flu shots and all sorts of cats leap out of Bush's bag of secrets: According to Ron Suskind's revelatory New York Times Mag