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September 29, 2003 Issue
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Editorial
Nation Notes
The Nation has a new look to go with our rising circulation. Avenging Angels, an advertising firm that works for progressive causes and that is responsible for our "c...
Children Left Behind
In his State of the Union speech this past January, President Bush appeared to make a compassionate gesture toward children with incarcerated parents when he proposed an ini...
Why Estrada Went Down
A few hours after Miguel Estrada withdrew his name for a judgeship on the Court of Appeals for the Washington, DC, Circuit, a leading Senate liberal was asked about the mean...
Bush’s Unreality Show
Competing in prime time with a docudrama celebrating his heroics after the attacks of September 11, 2001, George W.
Column
Send in the Clowns
I was a child who, when taken to the circus, spent all her time trying to see past the greasepaint and illusion.
‘Behold, the Head of a Neocon!’
Beating up on neocons used to be a specialize sport without wide appeal. With all due false modesty I offer myself as an early practitioner.
Letters
Feature
Blood in the Water
After a summer of tending to the grassroots, the Democrats who aspire to their party's 2004 presidential nomination were busy harvesting support from key constituencies arou...
Books & the Arts
Tokyo Story
A Love Affair for the postcollege, flirting-with-Buddhism set, Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation is a travelogue of the emotions, concerned with the deepenin...
Bleak Haus
Though still relatively unknown in the English-speaking world, the Austrian novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard, who died in 1989 at the age of 57, is widely recognized ...
From Protest to Patronage
Bayard Rustin forged a remarkable career as a social activist. Briefly a member of the Young Communist League, he repudiated communism but remained a socialist throughout hi...
