Battling Bush from the Grave Battling Bush from the Grave
(Update on "Sally Baron RIP") The AP reports explaining that Wisconsite Baron's family had asked that memorials in her honor be made to any organization working for the remova...
Sep 4, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Court Blocks FCC Media Rules Court Blocks FCC Media Rules
The Federal Communications Commission's attempt to implement rule changes that would permit big media companies to dramatically extend their control over communications in the Uni...
Sep 4, 2003 / John Nichols
Kleptocrat Nation Kleptocrat Nation
Look at America's leadership today. Tell me you wouldn't trade the whole mess of them for one good kindergarten teacher.
Sep 3, 2003 / Feature / Jim Hightower
Letters Letters
BURGLING IN BAGHDAD New York City
Sep 3, 2003 / Katha Pollitt, Our Readers, and Patrick Seale
America’s New Anti-Imperialists America’s New Anti-Imperialists
In 1898, the Anti-Imperialist League was established to oppose America's territorial expansion, especially the "liberation" of the Philippines from Spain. Long before a Presiden...
Sep 3, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush Was All Too Willing to Use Émigrés’ Lies Bush Was All Too Willing to Use Émigrés’ Lies
American experts urged the White House to be skeptical, but they hit a stone wall.
Sep 2, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Candidates Look for the Union Label Candidates Look for the Union Label
On Labor Day, the starting point for the mad rush to this winter's Democratic presidential caucuses and primaries, several of the Democratic contenders could point to support they...
Sep 1, 2003 / John Nichols
Bull’s Eye Bull’s Eye
This was the summer when the movies were so bad, people were reduced to complaining about a Mel Gibson film they hadn't seen.
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Regarding the Pain of Others Regarding the Pain of Others
In Plato's Republic, Socrates illustrates his theory of the parts of the soul with the story of Leontius, who saw some corpses rotting outside the walls of Athens and was torn ...
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Swing Time for Hitler Swing Time for Hitler
It is of some small comfort that totalitarian regimes are never quite as total as either their leaders or subsequent historians might imagine.
Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton