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Feature
Why Bush Left Texas
We’re pleased to announce that this article, originally posted on September 14, 2004, has won the Deadline Club’s Online News Exclusive for 2005, beating out Newsday and Business Week.
Research support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute.
Russ Baker
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Bush, Kerry & Vietnam
Check out Williams’s new book, Deserter: George W. Bush’s War on Military Families, Veterans, and His Past. Click here to purchase a copy.
Ian Williams
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Arizona: Turning Blue for Kerry?
Democrats hope demographic changes will translate into a win in November.
Marc Cooper
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2004: Vote for Bush or Die
In an election strategy spawned from the events of 9/11, the Republicans challenged John Kerry by politicizing terror.
Judd Legum and David Sirota
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Editorial
Letter From Ground Zero
Auden had in mind the secondary worlds of literature, but as the Arendt quote indicates, his idea has wider application.
Jonathan Schell
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Rudy Makes His Move
Back in the fog of war in Vietnam, LBJ super suckup Jack Valenti let the world know how he felt.
Noel E. Parmentel Jr.
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Infotainment at the RNC
With the candidates in the bag, and no hope of drama, the Democratic and Republican conventions can be fairly judged only as extended advertisements for the parties that staged them.
John Sayles
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Putin’s War
The bloody end to the hostage crisis in Beslan resulted in unfathomable human suffering.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Iraq and 1,000 Deaths
The price we are paying for George W. Bush’s unnecessary and illegal war in Iraq keeps rising: The number of Americans killed in the war has now passed the 1,000 mark.
The Editors
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Column
If Only Kerry Were From the Bronx
With some street smarts, he might call those Republican bums out.
Robert Scheer
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Books & the Arts
A Tribe Called Quest
Walking through the retrospective exhibition of Lee Bontecou, on view at MoMA-Queens, is uncannily like visiting an out-of-the-way museum of natural history, as if her entire work to date had bee
Arthur C. Danto
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On Being Asked During a National Crisis to Write a Poem in Celebration of the Bicentennial of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Caught up in a metaphorical swoon
by the oversoul in his head
War is on its last legs, he said.
The question is only How Soon.Maxine Kumin
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In the Bedroom (With Stalin)
Stalin continues to fascinate–the central mystery within the riddle inside the enigma that was the Soviet Union. If you Google “Stalin, biography,” 166,000 websites come up.
Ronald Grigor Suny
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Black American in Paris
In the spring of 1960, the year of his death, the novelist Richard Wright wrote from Paris to his friend and Dutch translator Margrit de Sablonière:
James Campbell
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