C’mon Ralph, You’ve Nothing to Lose C’mon Ralph, You’ve Nothing to Lose
If I were Ralph Nader (and given the number of people screaming at me about stabbing Kerry in the back, I sometimes think I am), I'd get on the plane to Palestine and Baghdad and...
Sep 23, 2004 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, once a supporter of the war in Iraq, has been rethinking his position.
Sep 23, 2004 / Editorial / Jonathan Schell
Nonproliferation Politics Nonproliferation Politics
Nonproliferation--the global campaign to prevent the further spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons--must be applied in a nondiscriminatory fashion to be effective.
Sep 23, 2004 / Editorial / Michael T. Klare
Election Matters Election Matters
When John Kerry in a recent speech refocused his campaign by targeting George W.
Sep 23, 2004 / Editorial / David Corn
Bush Spins at the UN Bush Spins at the UN
George W. Bush's September 21 speech to the United Nations, marked by an air of unreality and hypocrisy, was insulting to many other nations.
Sep 23, 2004 / Editorial / The Editors
Taking Liberties Taking Liberties
On September 2 a federal judge in Detroit threw out the only jury conviction the Justice Department has obtained on a terrorism charge since 9/11.
Sep 16, 2004 / Editorial / David Cole
Of Human Bondage Of Human Bondage
In the sequence of revolutions that remade the Atlantic world between 1776 and 1825, the Haitian Revolution is rarely given its due, yet without it the progressive credentials of...
Sep 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn
All Creatures Great and Small All Creatures Great and Small
It was an odd dream: The Bush twins were ten feet tall and peering in my window. They were snickering. "We had a hamster too..." they were saying, as though it were the merriest ...
Sep 16, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Letter From Afghanistan Letter From Afghanistan
The strange story of the Herati shelter girls shows the limits of "liberation."
Letter From Poland Letter From Poland
Bush has managed to puncture Poles' image of America as essentially good.