Reagan in Truth and Fiction Reagan in Truth and Fiction
Nixon thought Reagan was "strange" and, so he told the secret tape recorder in the Oval Office in 1972, "just an uncomfortable man to be around." The late President certainly was...
Jun 10, 2004 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Beloved by the Media Beloved by the Media
Ronald Reagan lived a charmed life in many respects, none more so than in his relationship with the news media.
Jun 10, 2004 / Editorial / Mark Hertsgaard
Cold War to Star Wars Cold War to Star Wars
Perhaps the most important question--for present policy-makers as well as historians--posed by the presidency of Ronald Reagan is what role he played in ending the cold war.
Jun 10, 2004 / Editorial / Jonathan Schell
The Gipper’s Economy The Gipper’s Economy
The Gipper had a certain goofiness about him that was impossible not to like. He told "war stories" borrowed from old movies with such sincerity you were sure he must have been t...
Jun 10, 2004 / Editorial / William Greider
The Reagan Legacy The Reagan Legacy
It's as if Gore Vidal coined the phrase "United States of Amnesia" for the moment of Ronald Reagan's death.
Jun 10, 2004 / Editorial / The Editors
Reagan’s Politics of Passion Reagan’s Politics of Passion
Rest assured that the radical reworking of history that America witnessed in the hours after Ronald Reagan died Saturday at age 93 will be temporary.
Jun 8, 2004 / Editorial / John Nichols
There He Goes Again There He Goes Again
Near the end of his threadbare, tendentious and dubious hagiography of Ronald Reagan, Peter Schweizer recounts the President's first trip to Moscow, in late spring 1988.
Jun 8, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Walter C. Uhler
66 Things to Think About When Flying Into Reagan National Airport 66 Things to Think About When Flying Into Reagan National Airport
The firing of the air traffic controllers, winnable nuclear war, recallable nuclear missiles, trees that cause pollution, Elliott Abrams lying to Congress, ketchup as a vegetabl...
Jun 8, 2004 / Editorial / David Corn
Reefer Madness Reefer Madness
If there was anything unusual in Judge Douglas Ginsburg's rapid descent, it was probably the sight of White House conservatives scrambling to create a loophole in the national dr...
Jun 7, 2004 / Editorial / Abbie Hoffman
Not Necessarily the First Lady Not Necessarily the First Lady
Nancy and Ronald Reagan met, they have repeatedly said, when she was blacklisted by mistake in the early 1950s after having been confused with another actress who had the same na...
Jun 7, 2004 / Feature / Jon Wiener