Letters Letters
AMERICAN HUBRIS AND HISTORY Brunswick, Me.
Jan 28, 2004 / Our Readers and Robert Jay Lifton
Europa, Europa Europa, Europa
Considered as a subset of the road movie, the post-Holocaust, return-to-Poland documentary has been a dismayingly static genre. Most of these films are journeys in only the physi...
Jan 28, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Spying Game The Spying Game
The recent flap in Paris regarding five C.I.A. operatives who allegedly tried to bribe their way into the very center of government policy-making should not be interpreted as a G...
Jan 28, 2004 / Daniel Singer
Ten Talking Points on New Hampshire Ten Talking Points on New Hampshire
1. Performance doesn't matter. Of all the candidates, Senator John Edwards delivered the best stump speech, in which he decried the existence of "tw...
Jan 28, 2004 / David Corn
Angry-About-the-War Candidate Angry-About-the-War Candidate
John Edwards is not running for the Democratic nomination as an anti-war candidate. Even in a campaign that has been defined by nothing so much as a constant process of redefiniti...
Jan 26, 2004 / John Nichols
A No-Issues Contest A No-Issues Contest
"We're in a war of ideas!" So declared Bill Barry, chairman of the Nashua, New Hampshire, Democrats, when he enthusiastically introduced Senator John Edward...
Jan 26, 2004 / David Corn
Oligarchs for Bush Oligarchs for Bush
Do you have 250 family members, friends, associates, and colleagues who can afford to give $2,000 to President Bush? On January 22, the Washington Post reported that there's now...
Jan 25, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Populists of New Hampshire The Populists of New Hampshire
There is the Angry Populist, the Calm Populist, the Polite Populist, the Executive Populist, and the Radical Populist. That's who racing across New Hampshir...
Jan 24, 2004 / David Corn
A Dud of a Debate A Dud of a Debate
The New Hampshire Democratic presidential debate was supposed to be the Super Bowl of the primary season face-offs. It was--only in that it was long...
Jan 23, 2004 / David Corn
Bush helps CBS, CBS helps Bush Bush helps CBS, CBS helps Bush
The annual Super Bowl game draws a huge audience of television viewers – 130 million Americans are expected to view the game February 1 -- and advertisers of all types want to r...
Jan 22, 2004 / John Nichols