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You Can’t Bomb Beliefs You Can’t Bomb Beliefs

Aaron Maté provided research assistance for this column.

Sep 30, 2004 / Column / Naomi Klein

Dumb and Dumber (and Dumber Still) Dumb and Dumber (and Dumber Still)

One problem with trying to write critically about this year's election coverage is that by choosing any single aspect of its manifold failures, one automatically does an injustic...

Sep 30, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman

Wonderland Wonderland

It is exasperating listening to the news as we approach this most important election. The coverage is all about comparing the length of the candidate's sentences. How many big wo...

Sep 30, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Death on the Border Death on the Border

Now that a summerlong Homeland Security crackdown along the Arizona border is concluding, the results are in and they spell lethal failure.

Sep 30, 2004 / Editorial / Marc Cooper

The Chastening of the Times The Chastening of the Times

On March 9, 2003, a distinguished group of high-ranking politicians and journalists descended on the Bryant Park Hotel to attend a wedding reception for the then-executive editor...

Sep 23, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Scott Sherman

Fox Hunts Student Voters Fox Hunts Student Voters

Juliana Zuccaro and Kelly Kraus thought they were exercising their civic rights and responsibilities on August 31 when, as officers of the Network of Feminist Student Activists a...

Sep 23, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt

DeLay on the Hot Seat DeLay on the Hot Seat

Two investigative bombs with long fuses are sizzling under Tom DeLay, America's Machiavelli of gerrymandering and shakedown fundraising.

Sep 23, 2004 / Editorial / Jack Newfield

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

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

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