Out to Sea on the Nation Cruise Out to Sea on the Nation Cruise
Out to sea? Yes, I am...on the Nation cruise. A week of chewing (over the 2004 election), pulling (hair over the prospects of the next four years) a...
Dec 4, 2004 / David Corn
Republican Dictionary: Part 2 Republican Dictionary: Part 2
Earlier this month, I wrote about the right's linguistic strategy, which is to use words, which may sound moderate to us but mean something completely different to its base. To ...
Dec 3, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Voting by Mail, Arafat and Derrida Voting by Mail, Arafat and Derrida
'ABOLISH ELECTION DAY,' by James K. Galbraith Belmont, MA
Dec 2, 2004 / Our Readers
Godard’s Inferno Godard’s Inferno
Michelangelo and Ulysses came home from the war with knapsacks bulging, bearing the reward for hardships suffered and inflicted. "We promised you the world," the soldiers boasted...
Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
False Promises False Promises
In American Dream, his masterful new book about welfare reform, Jason DeParle brings together two groups of people who rarely seem to meet: welfare policy-makers and welfare reci...
Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Egan
Body Heat Body Heat
After the Kinsey Report but before the first Penthouse Forum, John Updike wrote, "He kneels in a kind of sickness between her spread legs.
Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mark Lotto
The War That Never Was The War That Never Was
As war threatened Europe in the 1930s, a physicist turned to a psychiatrist to help understand the impending violence.
Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
Looking Back, Looking Forward Looking Back, Looking Forward
THEDA SKOCPOL
Dec 2, 2004 / Feature / Various Contributors
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