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The Race Right Now The Race Right Now

On the eve of the final presidential debate of the 2004 campaign, everything has changed -- again. And it could all change once more tonight. But here is where the race stands rig...

Oct 13, 2004 / John Nichols

Just One Vote Just One Vote

This year the Supreme Court and its future composition should be a bigger issue than ever. Yet, few people, including, curiously, the Democrats, are talking about it. Regardless, ...

Oct 13, 2004 / Peter Rothberg

A Woman of Firsts A Woman of Firsts

When Waangari Maathai got news that she had received the Nobel Peace Prize, she removed her jewelry, knelt down in the dirt and planted seeds of a Kenyan tree known as the Nandi F...

Oct 11, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Cheney’s Lamest Excuse Yet Cheney’s Lamest Excuse Yet

What do you do when the excuses you used to "justify" an unwise and unnecessary war are completely discredited. If you're Vice President Dick Cheney, you make up a new one. Chen...

Oct 11, 2004 / John Nichols

The Revolt Against Big Pharma The Revolt Against Big Pharma

In recent months, we've seen a full-scale revolt over the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs in this country. Two weeks ago, a high-level dissident executive from Pfizer, t...

Oct 8, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

VP DEBATE: Cheney’s Cyber Slip VP DEBATE: Cheney’s Cyber Slip

Does Dick Cheney know where he steered voters watching the vice presidential debate last night? In response to a series of attacks from John Edwards on Cheney's corrupt tenure as ...

Oct 6, 2004 / Peter Rothberg

Cheney KO’ed…by GOP Cheney KO’ed…by GOP

To hear Vice President Cheney tell it in Tuesday night's debate, Democrats like John Edwards and John Kerry are the only Americans foolish enough or unpatriotic enough to complain...

Oct 6, 2004 / John Nichols

Saving the Middle Class Saving the Middle Class

In Orlando, Florida just hours after the first presidential debate, a reinvigorated John Kerry told a crowd at Freedom High School that he had a message for every "middle-class Am...

Oct 6, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Ten Questions for Dick Cheney Ten Questions for Dick Cheney

Dick Cheney, who spent most of his administration's first term in a secure undisclosed location, has been campaigning this fall in the Potemkin Villages of Republican reaction. As...

Oct 3, 2004 / John Nichols

DEBATE: Whiner-in-Chief DEBATE: Whiner-in-Chief

It appears that George W. Bush is tired of being president. His weariness and frustration with the job was evident throughout last night's first presidential debate of the 2004 c...

Oct 1, 2004 / John Nichols

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