Undemocratic Process Undemocratic Process
There has been much comment about the take-no-prisoners approach of the Congressional Republican leadership in cramming through the Medicare prescription-drug benefit this past N...
Feb 26, 2004 / Wayne S. Smith
Was Strom a Rapist? Was Strom a Rapist?
Months after Strom Thurmond's African-American daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, stepped into history, commentators continue to step around the most explosive aspect of ...
Feb 26, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Press Watch Press Watch
The conduct of our major newspapers in the run-up to the Iraq war calls to mind William Hazlitt's famous appraisal of the Times of London.
Feb 26, 2004 / Scott Sherman
Candidate Nader Candidate Nader
Ralph Nader got a lot of things right when he appeared on NBC's Meet the Press and accused "Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush and their cohorts from Tallahassee to the Supreme Court"...
Feb 26, 2004 / The Editors
Springtime for Hitler? Springtime for Hitler?
The editor's note "disagreeing profoundly" with Alexander Cockburn's January 26 "Beat
Feb 26, 2004 / Alexander Cockburn and Our Readers
Nader Is Crashing the Party Yet Again Nader Is Crashing the Party Yet Again
Does he have no sense of accountability or shame?
Feb 25, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
Aloha Dennis Aloha Dennis
Democratic frontrunner John Kerry coasted on Not-So-Super Tuesday, winning three more states as Idaho, Utah and Hawaii quietly picked delegates to the Democratic National Conventi...
Feb 25, 2004 / John Nichols
The Propaganda of William Safire The Propaganda of William Safire
William Safire, New York Times columnist, doesn't know what he's talking (or writing) about. Who says? The New York Times. Underneath ...
Feb 24, 2004 / David Corn
Cash Cowboys & Other Bush Donors Cash Cowboys & Other Bush Donors
As President George W. Bush prepares to launch his first broadcast ads of the political season next week, it is clear that his well-groomed and well-rewarded donor network is doi...
Feb 24, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Will Nader Matter at All? Will Nader Matter at All?
The best-case scenario for Ralph Nader's fourth presidential campaign -- a 1992 write-in effort in the New Hampshire primary, Green Party runs in 1996 and 2000, and the independen...
Feb 22, 2004 / John Nichols