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Flawed Intelligence Bill Flawed Intelligence Bill

The debate held before Congress voted to reorganize the nation's intelligence agencies under the authority of an all-powerful intelligence czar was generally portrayed as a simpl...

Dec 16, 2004 / Editorial / John Nichols

Prosecuting US Torture Prosecuting US Torture

Did anyone in the Bush White House cast an uneasy eye over the new indictment of Gen. Augusto Pinochet?

Dec 16, 2004 / Editorial / The Editors

Kerik’s ‘Nannygate’ Was the Least of It Kerik’s ‘Nannygate’ Was the Least of It

NYC's media have been looking into allegations of far more consequential transgressions.

Dec 14, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Talking With Anthony Papa Talking With Anthony Papa

He is using his art to publicize the injustice of the drug laws that put him away.

Dec 9, 2004 / Feature / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Hell Hounds Hell Hounds

The gentle essayist E.B.

Dec 9, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Our Debt to Bill Moyers Our Debt to Bill Moyers

Click here to order copies of Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times, recently released by The New Press.

Dec 9, 2004 / Editorial / The Editors

Real UN Reform Real UN Reform

Those conservatives who think that "UN Reform" means the dissolution of the United Nations are now calling for the resignation of Kofi Annan.

Dec 9, 2004 / Editorial / Ian Williams

Is That All There Is? Is That All There Is?

It's hard to resist the misery of V.S. Naipaul's late fiction, hard not to surrender to its bleak and wary authority.

Dec 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood

Body Heat Body Heat

After the Kinsey Report but before the first Penthouse Forum, John Updike wrote, "He kneels in a kind of sickness between her spread legs.

Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mark Lotto

Stop Crying, Start Working Stop Crying, Start Working

How long did it take Republicans to write their thank-you note to the Christian right? About five minutes.

Dec 2, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt

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