Follow the Money Follow the Money
The Christian right's comeback has been fueled by Bush Administration grants.
Oct 14, 2004 / Feature / Esther Kaplan
Anchors Aweigh: The Refs Are Worked Anchors Aweigh: The Refs Are Worked
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Oct 14, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman
A White House Spokesman Explains… A White House Spokesman Explains…
Why the Duelfer Report's Finding That Iraq Had No Weapons of Mass Destruction Provides Justification for Having Attacked Iraq in Order to Rid It of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Oct 14, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Tarantara! Tarantara!
Twenty months ago, when the Bush Administration was steering the country toward war in Iraq, we noted a parallel with another military misadventure, the Spanish-American War, in ...
Oct 14, 2004 / Editorial / Jonathan Schell and John Maxwell Hamilton
Dissent at 50 Dissent at 50
In the summer of 1953, the New School for Social Research hung a yellow curtain over a mural by the Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco. Orozco's transgression?
Oct 14, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Scott Sherman
Vaccine Poker Vaccine Poker
With the announcement that 50 million influenza vaccines from the British manufacturer Chiron won't be available in the United States this year because of possible contamination,...
Oct 14, 2004 / Editorial / Dr. Marc Siegel
Playing the Age Card Playing the Age Card
This essay is adapted from Margaret Morganroth Gullette's Aged by Culture.
Oct 14, 2004 / Editorial / Margaret Morganroth Gullette
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 / Editorial / 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 / Editorial / 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 / Editorial / Mark Hertsgaard