The Rubble The Rubble
As speaker after speaker Monday night invoked the iconic image of President Bush standing amidst the rubble of Ground Zero in the days after 9/11, I had a different image--of the...
Aug 31, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
McCain v. Moore McCain v. Moore
NEW YORK -- When US Senator John McCain took a shot at film maker Michael Moore in his speech to the Republican National Convention Monday night, he had no reason to know that the...
Aug 31, 2004 / John Nichols
The McCain Fizzle The McCain Fizzle
The world is your playground/And you want to win. So sang the frontman for a little-known and unimpressive rock band named Dexter Freebish at...
Aug 31, 2004 / David Corn
RNC Has Extreme Makeover RNC Has Extreme Makeover
Remember the incessant media punditry during the Democratic National Convention--particularly pervasive on Fox and CNN--which echoed GOP claims that what viewers were seeing wasn...
Aug 30, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush’s Flip-Flop Bush’s Flip-Flop
Now that the damage has been done to Kerry's campaign by the Swift Boat Veterans, Bush is trying to play the good guy. After the demonstrably false charges against Kerry has made...
Aug 30, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Tale of Two GOPs A Tale of Two GOPs
From the hard right to the mushy right--within minutes you can experience both in New York, as each extreme fights for a piece of a tent that's not so big. ...
Aug 30, 2004 / David Corn
Less Than La Guardia; Less Than Lindsay Less Than La Guardia; Less Than Lindsay
Forty years ago, when Republicans suffered their worst presidential election defeat of the post-World War II era, roughly 800,000 New Yorkers voted for the party's nominee, Arizon...
Aug 30, 2004 / John Nichols
Partying With the GOP Partying With the GOP
The Saturday night before every political convention there is usually a party for the thousands of journalists that will be covering the shebang to come. Th...
Aug 29, 2004 / David Corn
It’s Only Just Begun It’s Only Just Begun
It's now official that there are far too many anti-RNC events in New York this week for any one calendar, guide, website or publication to keep up with. But you can generally sta...
Aug 28, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
No Dissent Allowed No Dissent Allowed
The principle that people of good faith might disagree on issues such as abortion, family planning and gay and lesbian rights lost by a 4-1 margin when members of the Republican p...
Aug 27, 2004 / John Nichols