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
Politicize the CIA? You’ve Got to Be Kidding! Politicize the CIA? You’ve Got to Be Kidding!
No alien penetration or treachery of double agents has ever done nearly as much damage to the CIA as the infighting consequent upon the arrival of each new director, charged by h...
Dec 2, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The Party of Moral Values Displays Its Own in the Case of Majority Leader Tom (The Hammer) DeLay The Party of Moral Values Displays Its Own in the Case of Majority Leader Tom (The Hammer) DeLay
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Dec 2, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Nation Notes Nation Notes
The fourth annual winner of the Puffin/Nation Prize for 2004 is author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, a longtime contributor to this magazine, as well as to other periodic...
Dec 2, 2004 / The Editors
Defunct Economists Defunct Economists
Professor Paul Samuelson's Economics: An Introductory Analysis has been the bestselling college economics textbook for more than fifty years.
Dec 2, 2004 / William Greider
The Bush AIDS Machine The Bush AIDS Machine
Click here for info on Kaplan's With God on Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, and Democracy in George W. Bush's White House (New Press).
Dec 2, 2004 / Esther Kaplan
Taking Liberties Taking Liberties
Attorney General John Ashcroft has never been one to hide his anger under a bushel.
Dec 2, 2004 / David Cole
Dutch Tolerance Tried Dutch Tolerance Tried
“We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.” So said the philosopher Karl Popper near the end of World War II.
Dec 2, 2004 / Maria Margaronis
Ukraine’s Untold Story Ukraine’s Untold Story
However Ukraine's crisis is resolved, it is clear that interference by Russia and the United States has been massive. Viktor Yanukovich, the current Prime Minister, was Moscow's ...
Dec 2, 2004 / Jonathan Steele
DNC Makeover Time DNC Makeover Time
Politics doesn't grant any long mourning periods. Democrats have to shake off the postelection blues--now--and begin agitating among themselves to create a very different party.
Dec 2, 2004 / The Editors