DEBATE: Litmus Tests DEBATE: Litmus Tests
Bush's slip in the third debate was about Osama, but his big, calculated lie last night was, as in the second debate, about the Supreme Court. Bush said he wouldn't apply a "litmu...
Oct 14, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Follow the Money Follow the Money
The Christian right's comeback has been fueled by Bush Administration grants.
Oct 14, 2004 / Feature / Esther Kaplan
Anchors Aweigh: The Refs Are Worked Anchors Aweigh: The Refs Are Worked
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Oct 14, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman
A White House Spokesman Explains… A White House Spokesman Explains…
Why the Duelfer Report's Finding That Iraq Had No Weapons of Mass Destruction Provides Justification for Having Attacked Iraq in Order to Rid It of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Oct 14, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Tarantara! Tarantara!
Twenty months ago, when the Bush Administration was steering the country toward war in Iraq, we noted a parallel with another military misadventure, the Spanish-American War, in ...
Oct 14, 2004 / Jonathan Schell and John Maxwell Hamilton
Dissent at 50 Dissent at 50
In the summer of 1953, the New School for Social Research hung a yellow curtain over a mural by the Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco. Orozco's transgression?
Oct 14, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Scott Sherman
Vaccine Poker Vaccine Poker
With the announcement that 50 million influenza vaccines from the British manufacturer Chiron won't be available in the United States this year because of possible contamination,...
Oct 14, 2004 / Dr. Marc Siegel
No Atonement No Atonement
The new Ten Commandments for Israel’s national policies.
Oct 14, 2004 / Yair Svorai
DEBATE: Preparing for the End DEBATE: Preparing for the End
To be continued. That is, nothing was resolved during the final encounter between George W. Bush and John Kerry. The challenger certainly outperformed the t...
Oct 14, 2004 / David Corn
Playing the Age Card Playing the Age Card
This essay is adapted from Margaret Morganroth Gullette's Aged by Culture.
Oct 14, 2004 / Margaret Morganroth Gullette