Where Rather Was Right Where Rather Was Right
When it comes to presidential politics there seem to be a half-dozen narratives favored by big (and small-minded) media: Who's ahead?, "Gotcha!", the (cynical) assumption that al...
Sep 23, 2004 / Editorial / Victor Navasky
Election Matters Election Matters
When John Kerry in a recent speech refocused his campaign by targeting George W.
Sep 23, 2004 / Editorial / David Corn
Bush Spins at the UN Bush Spins at the UN
George W. Bush's September 21 speech to the United Nations, marked by an air of unreality and hypocrisy, was insulting to many other nations.
Sep 23, 2004 / Editorial / The Editors
Keep the Promise to Our Children Keep the Promise to Our Children
The largest mobilization ever for public schools has one simple demand.
Sep 22, 2004 / Editorial / Robert L. Borosage
Debating the Great Debate Debating the Great Debate
This essay, from the November 11, 1960 issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on ...
Sep 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors
True Conservatives Would Back Kerry True Conservatives Would Back Kerry
If they were true to their principles, moderate Republicans and consistent conservatives would be supporting John Kerry. Instead, their acquiescence to the reckless whims of Geor...
Sep 21, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
Taking Liberties Taking Liberties
On September 2 a federal judge in Detroit threw out the only jury conviction the Justice Department has obtained on a terrorism charge since 9/11.
Sep 16, 2004 / Editorial / David Cole
Bush’s Useful Idiot Bush’s Useful Idiot
Four years ago, Ralph Nader justified his third-party campaign on the grounds that the two parties represented nothing more than "Tweedledum and Tweedledee." As Americans die by ...
Sep 16, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman
All Creatures Great and Small All Creatures Great and Small
It was an odd dream: The Bush twins were ten feet tall and peering in my window. They were snickering. "We had a hamster too..." they were saying, as though it were the merriest ...
Sep 16, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams