The RNC in Retrospect The RNC in Retrospect
This week's Republican National Convention brought fake compassion, fire-and-brimstone, terrible hair-cuts and even worse music from inside Madison Square Garden; close to 1,800 ...
Sep 3, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Bush: It’s About Me and My Crusade Bush: It’s About Me and My Crusade
It's official: the 2004 campaign is a referendum on whether the United States should wage a crusade to bring liberty to the repressed of the world--particul...
Sep 3, 2004 / David Corn
GOP to UN: Drop Dead GOP to UN: Drop Dead
NEW YORK -- John Kerry has taken his hits at this year's Republican National Convention. But the Democratic presidential nominee came off easy compared with the United Nations. N...
Sep 3, 2004 / John Nichols
Now Hear This! Now Hear This!
A once-sleepy population of artists and their fans has emerged as a loud and active proponent of political change.
Sep 2, 2004 / Feature / Hillary Frey
The Optimism of Uncertainty The Optimism of Uncertainty
The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning.
Sep 2, 2004 / Feature / Howard Zinn
The Gates of Hope The Gates of Hope
This article was adapted from The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books, www.theimpossible.org).
Sep 2, 2004 / Feature / Victoria Safford
Hope for Human Rights Hope for Human Rights
This article was adapted from The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books, www.theimpossible.org).
Sep 2, 2004 / Feature / Kenneth Roth
Political Alternatives Political Alternatives
OK, I tried to watch the Republican convention on TV--I really did--but the early rounds of the US Open were playing seductively on ESPN.
Sep 2, 2004 / William Greider
The Burden of Memory The Burden of Memory
Perhaps you noticed them in the main square of your town this year--or last year, or any year you've been alive, in any town where you've ever lived: a group of people solemnly a...
Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Meline Toumani
At the Border At the Border
At the border between the past and the future No sign on a post warns that your passport Won't let you return to your native land As a citizen, just as a tourist
Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Carl Dennis