Modest Appointments Modest Appointments
Bush has appointed Torture Guy to run the American "Justice" Department, his "work wife" to serve as America's top diplomat, and a partisan hatchet man, Porter Goss, to subject th...
Nov 22, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Teaching Torture–UPDATED Teaching Torture–UPDATED
See below for an update More than 10,000 activists from across the US--including actors Martin Sheen and Susan Sarandon and musicians Amy Ray and Utah Phillips--will gather at t...
Nov 19, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Prisoner of Love Prisoner of Love
I was introduced to Bernard-Henri Lévy this spring at a stop on his latest book tour. It was a few minutes before he was due to face the audience.
Nov 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Robbins
Suspension of Disbelief Suspension of Disbelief
Ask Americans to enumerate their civil liberties and they instinctively turn to freedom of speech and the press.
Nov 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
What Bearden Taught Me What Bearden Taught Me
Also in this issue, an essay on Romare Bearden by Arthur C. Danto .
Nov 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
An Artist Beyond Category An Artist Beyond Category
Also in this issue, Branford Marsalis talks about Romare Bearden with Adam Shatz.
Nov 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Southern Ms. Southern Ms.
A gathering of feminists is an occasion to commiserate and to strategize.
Nov 18, 2004 / Feature / Ashley Sayeau
Deciding What’s Next Deciding What’s Next
After too many years of watching the Democratic Party and its national candidates lose the crucial ground games of American politics, organized labor, activist groups and wealthy...
Nov 18, 2004 / Feature / John Nichols
Why Bush Scored in Nevada Why Bush Scored in Nevada
The GOP message machine triumphs.
Nov 18, 2004 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky