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June 7, 2004 Issue
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Editorial
Nation Notes
Katha Pollitt has been named the Charles Lawrence Keith Fellow at the Nation Institute.
India’s Radical Vote
The Indian people have delivered a stunning electoral blow to the right-wing National Democratic Alliance, led by the Hindu-chauvinist Bharatiya Janata Party, and paved the wa...
Outsourcing Is Hell
The war on Iraq has made us all painfully aware of the Pentagon's growing reliance on private companies.
Election Matters
By identifying himself as an antiwar candidate seeking the rapid withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, and by using his still considerable media skills to spread the word about h...
Orders to Torture
The Abu Ghraib prison scandal now implicates the highest levels of the Bush Administration in violating federal law and in war crimes.
Column
Hawks Eating Crow
The Bush Administration has not made it easy on its supporters. David Brooks now admits that he was gripped with a "childish fantasy" about Iraq.
Letters
Letters
Eyal Press and Our Readers and Elizabeth Drew
Books & the Arts
The Metaphysical Couple
This book has a past, which begins at least in 1995, when Elzbieta Ettinger brought out a controversial account of the unpublished correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Mar...
From the Prompter’s Box
Those first-nights when I see my charge's panic,
And, in quick whispers, slip him mislaid lines,
Untangled recognition scenes will light
The North Korean Conundrum
In the prevailing American stereotype, North Korea is a failing Stalinist dictatorship held together only by the ruthless repression of a mad ruler who dreams of firing nuclea...
