November 8, 2004 Issue
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Feature
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
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Nader’s Flawed Calculus
Nader backers support Kerry more than Bush, Nation Institute poll shows.
John Nichols
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Nader Voters Do Favor Kerry
Survey finds risk of swaying election to Bush major concern of Nader backers
The Nation
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Poor Plans for Healthcare
As neither candidate seems to be aware, healthcare is increasingly available only to those who can pay.
Trudy Lieberman
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Art Makes a Difference
The Bush era has seen an explosion of sharply political creativity.
Alisa Solomon
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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
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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
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Straight Down the Middle
Not being "middle class," the poor have been invisible in this campaign.
Eyal Press
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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
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Under the Veil, Who’s for Kerry?
Many Arab-American voters loathe Bush, but they have little love for his rival.
Gary Younge
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A Long Four Years in Midland
Bush's hometown is still behind him, but not with the enthusiasm of 2000.
Russell Cobb
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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
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Editorial
The Rehnquist Election
This election is a referendum on William Rehnquist's Supreme Court.
Bruce Shapiro
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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
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The Blood Red Moon
Apocalyptic language intensifies, but the election may be less definitive than many think.
William Greider
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Column
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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
Katha Pollitt
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You Can’t Blame Nader for This
Let's hedge this with all the usual qualifiers. Kerry could pull it out. The spread's within the margin of error. Respondents to polls are lying out of fear of John Ashcroft.
Alexander Cockburn
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A President Who Listens To a Higher Authority
He can't remember one mistake.
He'll stay on course till Hades freezes.
How can he be so certain still?
Because he's got the word from Jesus.
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Eminem Aims at Bush
"Mosh" could be one of the most overtly political pop music videos ever produced.
Sam Graham-Felsen
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Guided by Voices
The new Tom Waits album begins, in very Waitsian fashion, with a racket: a squall of percussive noise that sounds like it was recorded in a freight elevator.
Jody Rosen
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Crude Awakening
On January 9, 2004, Royal Dutch/Shell, one of the world's largest publicly traded oil companies, shocked the international financial community by announcing that it had overstated its oil and gas
Michael T. Klare
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Art Makes a Difference
The Bush era has seen an explosion of sharply political creativity.
Alisa Solomon
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