Reader’s Mailbag: Good News Reader’s Mailbag: Good News
My recent weblog about progressive victories worth celebrating seemed to touch a chord. After asking Nation magazine and website readers to nominate their favorite piece of recen...
Jul 12, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Dems and Iraq The Dems and Iraq
Recently in this space I asked Nation readers to join a grassroots campaign organized by supporters of Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich to let the Democratic Par...
Jul 12, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dean Debates Nader Dean Debates Nader
When Howard Dean's outsider campaign for Democratic presidential nomination began to take off year ago, Ralph Nader was at least somewhat enthusiastic about the enterprise, going...
Jul 9, 2004 / John Nichols
Support WomanCare Support WomanCare
Have you heard about the recent arson at the WomanCare clinic in Lake Fort Worth, FL? A vicious fire attack destroyed the facility on July 2nd. This is the kind of home-grown Ame...
Jul 8, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
My Response to the Platform Committee My Response to the Platform Committee
My Response to the Platform CommitteeBy Tom Hayden Dear Madame Chair and Members, I write as a supporter of Senator John Kerry, a former member of the Democratic Platform Commit...
Jul 7, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush Campaign’s Political Fiction Bush Campaign’s Political Fiction
At the risk of bringing too much clarity to the overheated discussion about whether Arizona Senator John McCain really was John Kerry's "first choice" for the number two spot on t...
Jul 7, 2004 / John Nichols
Tell Them What You Think Tell Them What You Think
With just a few days to go before the Democratic Party's Platform Committee convenes in Miami on July 9th and 10th, supporters of Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinic...
Jul 6, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Cautious Kerry Chooses Charisma Cautious Kerry Chooses Charisma
Never let it be said that John Kerry rushes to judgement. Four months after just about every other Democrat had decided a Kerry-Edwards ticket was the best bet for the party, the ...
Jul 6, 2004 / John Nichols
Unequal Treatment Unequal Treatment
Thanks to the Bush Administration, tens of thousands of women serving abroad in the US military are being denied their freedoms, even as they are asked to fight to defend ours. ...
Jul 6, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
‘The Birthday of the World’ ‘The Birthday of the World’
The Patriot Act, sweeping as it is, does not ban every expression of radicalism. On at least one day each year, Americans still celebrate revolution. Indeed, so long as no one t...
Jul 4, 2004 / John Nichols