Dean’s Rough Ride Dean’s Rough Ride
In forty years of observing presidential contests, I cannot remember another major candidate brutalized so intensely by the media, with the possible exception of George Wallace.
Feb 19, 2004 / Editorial / William Greider
Trade Wins Trade Wins
Paul Wellstone would have loved the turn the race for the Democratic presidential nomination has taken.
Feb 19, 2004 / Editorial / John Nichols
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
John Hess, who, it should be said, is one of The Nation's oldest friends and severest critics, once complained to me about an "editor's choice" blurb I'd written, which containe...
Feb 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Richard Lingeman
Old MacDonald Had a Judge… Old MacDonald Had a Judge…
Quack, quack. So much for the constitutionally mandated separation of powers.
Feb 18, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
Tripping on Internet Populism Tripping on Internet Populism
There was a contagious optimism in the air about the potential of the Internet to effect political change.
Feb 16, 2004 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry
Al, We Hardly Know Ye Al, We Hardly Know Ye
The evolution of the character invented by the media to play the role "Al Gore" will one day make a remarkable doctoral dissertation.
Feb 12, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman
Kristof to the Rescue? Kristof to the Rescue?
This morning I got an e-mail from Feminist Majority asking me to e-mail the President protesting the Iraqi Governing Council's approval of Resolution 137, which would abolish cur...
Feb 12, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Press Watch Press Watch
In July 2002 a retired US Army colonel who would be dead within months unburdened himself of twenty-two classified documents concerning war crimes in Vietnam.
Feb 12, 2004 / Editorial / Scott Sherman
Iran’s Tainted Elections Iran’s Tainted Elections
Iran's elections, scheduled for February 20, have provoked the gravest political crisis in that country in twenty years.
Taking Liberties Taking Liberties
On February 3 a law enforcement official working with the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Des Moines served a subpoena on Drake University seeking records on its student chapter of...
Feb 12, 2004 / Editorial / David Cole