California Burning California Burning
The 52nd Congressional District of California, where I grew up, encompasses the eastern suburbs of San Diego as well as a vast hinterland of granite-bouldered mountains and alm...
Nov 6, 2003 / Mike Davis
The Struggle for Russia The Struggle for Russia
The arrest last month of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the principal owner of Russia's biggest oil company, Yukos, and the richest of the country's seventeen state-anointed billionaire...
Nov 6, 2003 / Stephen F. Cohen
The Activist Primary The Activist Primary
A day before the International Committee of the Red Cross announced it would reduce its presence in Iraq because the country was becoming increasingly dangerous, President Bush...
Nov 6, 2003 / John Nichols
One Year and Counting One Year and Counting
There will be a presidential election in a year, and it will come as no surprise that we hope Election Night 2004 ends early with the defeat of George W. Bush.
Nov 6, 2003 / The Editors
On General Boykin’s Comments That His God’s Bigger Than the Islam God On General Boykin’s Comments That His God’s Bigger Than the Islam God
The general says Islam's God's so small He's just an idol, not a god at all. The man's a moderate. Yes, you can cite Much worse from zealots of the Christian right
Nov 6, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Ronald Reagan’s Legacy Ronald Reagan’s Legacy
66 Things to Think About When We Watch The Reagans on Showtime. As anyone reading today's papers knows, CBS (I hereby rename it the Craven Broadcasting System) announced yest...
Nov 5, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ann Coulter Goes to the Movies Ann Coulter Goes to the Movies
Don't read this if you like Ann Coulter. Don't read this if you want to believe Ann Coulter gets her facts straight. The other night I was e...
Nov 5, 2003 / David Corn