Help Preserve the Right to Vote Help Preserve the Right to Vote
With the Presidential election less than a week away, it's clear that GOP operatives are attempting to disenfranchise voters through intimidation, suppression and bureaucratic ma...
Oct 29, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Trick Or… Trick Or…
It's fitting that the last seven days of a presidential campaign fall during Halloween week. Scare tactics are the order for each day. The difference this year is the Republicans ...
Oct 29, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Fortunate Son Fortunate Son
Travistan will keep kids asking questions about music, politics and life.
Oct 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey
Springsteen’s Political Poetry Springsteen’s Political Poetry
The art of political speechmaking is now so lost to the dark machinations of the spin doctors, pollsters and pundits that most Americans have never heard a live campaign speech of...
Oct 29, 2004 / John Nichols
Not Quite an Exact Portrait Not Quite an Exact Portrait
Talking points on election reform.
Oct 28, 2004 / Patrick Mulvaney
War Games War Games
In the players' handbooks that once circulated among commedia dell'arte troupes, the wandering actors of early modern Italy used to set down inventories of the lazzi, or comic tu...
Oct 28, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Darkness Visible Darkness Visible
The remarkably gifted artist Francesca Woodman abruptly ended her brief life and career on January 19, 1981, leaping to her death from a window in her New York studio.
Oct 28, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Gods Must Be Crazy The Gods Must Be Crazy
"Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply felt religious faith--and I don't care what it is." Thus spoke the noted theologian Dwight Eisenhower on Flag Day ...
Oct 28, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
The View From Vermont The View From Vermont
Dr. Deborah Richter has advocated state-sponsored health insurance for every Vermonter, at nearly fifty Rotary Clubs plus chambers of commerce and boardrooms.
Oct 28, 2004 / Feature / Morton Mintz