The Worst Form of Exploitation The Worst Form of Exploitation
A hypocritical Bush uses 9/11 images but resists an accounting of the truth.
Mar 10, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
A Big Fat Fraud A Big Fat Fraud
Bush's 9/11 campaign commercials are reckless and offensive. Depicting firefighters carrying bodies, draped in American flags, out of the World Trade Center rubble, they triviali...
Mar 9, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Iran and America Iran and America
Iran and America are following a negative policy of not alienating each other.
Mar 9, 2004 / Feature / Dilip Hiro
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
In the midst of a wicked winter, I like to curl up with some sultry nature writing. My father instilled in me a fascination with the natural world.
Mar 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Teresa Stack
Bush’s Backfiring Ad Campaign Bush’s Backfiring Ad Campaign
Most political observers expected the Bush/Cheney re-election ads to begin by branding Bush as the 9/11 candidate. The only surprise, as John Nichols points out in his latest web...
Mar 6, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Exploiting 9/11, Badly Exploiting 9/11, Badly
It should not come as a surprise to anyone who has watched American politics over the past several years that George W. Bush has begun his formal reelection campaigning by exploit...
Mar 5, 2004 / John Nichols
Clear Channel vs. the First Amendment Clear Channel vs. the First Amendment
"We must preserve radio as a medium for democracy." Sen. Russ Feingold, on January 30, 2003, before the Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on Media Concentration and Ownership i...
Mar 5, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Advertisements for Myself Advertisements for Myself
Solo theatrical performances are like ads. Everyone claims to hate them but nevertheless finds the good ones irresistible. A good ad acts like a tonic, making a new idea easy to sw...
Mar 4, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Kalb
My Dinner With Aleksander My Dinner With Aleksander
In 1964 an important if somewhat obscure Polish writer and public intellectual named Aleksander Wat arrived at the University of California, Berkeley, and began the work that wou...
Mar 4, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff
Notes of a Native Daughter Notes of a Native Daughter
The title does neither the book nor its author any favors.
Mar 4, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour