Reforming Three Strikes Reforming Three Strikes
In November, California voters will have their first chance in a decade to reform the state's "three strikes and you're out" law, which has imposed cruel life sentences on th...
Oct 14, 2004 / Louis Freedberg
Roe = Dred Roe = Dred
Many viewers were puzzled when, toward the end of the second debate, George W. Bush answered a question about Supreme Court nominees by referring to the Dred Scott case.
Oct 14, 2004 / Katha Pollitt
Climate, the Absent Issue Climate, the Absent Issue
Every once in a while there is good news in this troubled world, and the choice of Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai as this year's Nobel Peace Prizewinner is one suc...
Oct 14, 2004 / Mark Hertsgaard
Election Matters Election Matters
As he began his seventh campaign swing this year through the battleground state of Wisconsin on a sunny day in late September, George W. Bush loaded a secret weapon onto hi...
Oct 14, 2004 / John Nichols
Hammer Strikes–Out? Hammer Strikes–Out?
Has Tom DeLay--a k a The Hammer--hit his last nail? Not yet, but the Republican House majority leader has sustained his own whacks recently for a series of unethica...
Oct 14, 2004 / The Editors
The James Baker Documents The James Baker Documents
Letter dated January 20 2004 from International Strategy Group, Coudert Brothers and The Albright Group (pdf).
Oct 13, 2004 / Feature / The Nation
James Baker’s Double Life James Baker’s Double Life
Bush's special envoy has a private interest in Iraqi debt, documents reveal.
Oct 12, 2004 / Feature / Naomi Klein
Kerry a Bleeding Heart? Hardly Kerry a Bleeding Heart? Hardly
Thank you, George W. Bush, for trying to assure me that John Kerry is a liberal. Wish it were so.
Oct 12, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
Voting for the First Time Voting for the First Time
A conversation with Utah Phillips.
Oct 12, 2004 / Feature / Carolyn Crane
‘Radical to the Root’ ‘Radical to the Root’
A talk with David Cobb, the Green Party's presidential candidate.
Oct 8, 2004 / Feature / William Greider