Getting Out Every Vote
How can progressives substantially increase the number of low-income voters in 2004--and why does it matter?
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April 26, 2004 Issue
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Editorial
The Trouble With 527s
What should be done about 527s--those new organizations used primarily by Democrats (so far) to skirt the McCain-Feingold legislation passed in 2002?
Turning Point in Iraq
When asked why the United States should not invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein, a prescient critic said, "Once you've got Baghdad, it's not clear what you do with it...
The Cruelest Month
Like mushrooms after a spring rain, signs pop up at this time of year in hardscrabble urban neighborhoods across the country, promising quick and easy money.
Bush, AIDS, Big Pharma
When George W. Bush announced a $15 billion Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in his 2003 State of the Union address, he compared the fight against AIDS to the war on terrorism.
Election Matters
John Kerry is borne aloft by party unity and the overriding imperative of defeating Bush, but the senator has entered a perilous zone where the outcome may depend more on the ...
Column
Drug War Led Bush Astray Before 9/11
Why won't they just admit they blew it? It is long past time for the President and his national security team to concede that before the Sept.
Dishonest, Moronic or Both?
Grover Norquist, the right's premier political organizer, once told me that the most significant difference between liberal journalists and conservative journalists is tha...
Pregnant and Dangerous
The good news is that Utah has dropped murder charges against Melissa Rowland, who rejected her doctors' advice to undergo an immediate Caesarean section and gave birth to a s...
Letters
Feature
Cyprus’s Great Divide
From Alexander the Great to Henry Kissinger and beyond, the small eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus has been the pawn of greater forces.
The Terror at Jaslyk
In the desert steppe of northwestern Uzbekistan, great dust storms lift toxic pesticides into the air, and a powdery, desiccated brine known as the "dry tears of the Aral Sea"...
Books & the Arts
What Are They Reading?
Since I'm from California, I sometimes dare to dispute the seemingly popular East Coast belief that my home state is a cultural wasteland.
L’Amérique, Mon Amour
Along with the Bible and Moby-Dick, Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America has got to be one of the world's least-read classics.
Chronicle of a Disappearance
A rough but accurate gauge of national resilience: When dictators fall, how soon do filmmakers rise again? In the case of Argentina, the recovery was impressively quick.
Prison Without Walls
Our nation's two-decade spree of building prisons and sentencing even nonviolent criminals to long spells inside them has produced a staggering number of incarcerated people i...
