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On the Reappointment of John Snow as Secretary of the Treasury On the Reappointment of John Snow as Secretary of the Treasury

The people in the know said Snow Was someone who would have to go. The dollar's at an all-time low. On Wall Street, numbers fail to grow.

Dec 22, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Stanton’s Wisdom Stanton’s Wisdom

One afternoon in January 1892, in a packed convention hall in Washington, DC, the 76-year-old Elizabeth Cady Stanton rose from her seat to address the annual meeting of the Natio...

Dec 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick

Cincinnati’s ‘Beacon’ Cincinnati’s ‘Beacon’

"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last!" Nope, not the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Dec 22, 2004 / Thomas A. Dutton and Rev. Damon Lynch III

Wrong for Civil Rights Wrong for Civil Rights

When Mary Frances Berry resigned as chair of the Commission on Civil Rights on December 7, the media's harsh, fleeting spotlight on Berry's purported combativeness distracted rea...

Dec 22, 2004 / Susan Eaton

Trading Down Trading Down

In less than five years, the garment industry in poor, war-ravaged Cambodia has more than doubled into a $1.5 billion industry employing 200,000 workers and generating nearly thr...

Dec 22, 2004 / David Moberg

Seeds of Hope Seeds of Hope

At the close of 2004, progressives can be forgiven for feeling they've found themselves in a particularly bleak midwinter.

Dec 22, 2004 / The Editors

Letters Letters

SAVE YOUR CONFEDERATE MONEY... Manchester, NJ

Dec 22, 2004 / Thomas Geoghegan, Laura Flanders, Our Readers, and Laura Ross

The Republican Dictionary: Part 3 The Republican Dictionary: Part 3

This past November, I wrote about the right's semantic trickery and proposed an idea for how we could debunk and decode the conservative's Orwellian Code of encrypted language: A...

Dec 21, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

What do the CIA, the Pentagon and the UN Have in Common? What do the CIA, the Pentagon and the UN Have in Common?

What do the CIA, the Pentagon and the UN have in common? They share a prescient view of the world's greatest dangers and their unheralded agreement on key issues facing the planet...

Dec 21, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Newfield’s Passionate Journalism Newfield’s Passionate Journalism

In RFK: A Memoir, the finest of the shelf full of books he produced during a career that was as prolific as it was meaningful, Jack Newfield succeeded in explaining the late Rober...

Dec 21, 2004 / John Nichols

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