Dean’s New Southern Strategy
Historically, the Confederate flag is a symbol of the Democratic Party.
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December 1, 2003 Issue
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Editorial
Rocking the Hip-Hop Vote
Russell Simmons was never a young voter. The 46-year-old hip-hop tycoon cast his first vote in a presidential election seven years ago, he says, at the age of 39.
Syria, US Torture Center
Travel agents booking international flights may have to issue a new warning to their customers: Changing planes in the United States could be hazardous to your health.
From Seattle to Miami
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The Candidates on Iraq
What would you do now in Iraq? is the question confronting the Democratic presidential candidates.
Column
Waving the Flag
All right, so maybe Howard Dean could have thought of a better way of reaching out to white Southern men than saying he wanted "to be the candidate for guys with Confederate...
Letters
Books & the Arts
Full Moon
Clouds curdle round it, crack open, let it through.
Radiance shades by cloudshapes; fat fruit
of incandescence; sphere of peeled silver. I wonder
Man Making the Bed
Psalm after psalm into a dead sea of silence: they invite
their own enormous, endangered day. Scalded, lord,
by sunlight and the lizards watching, licking dust,
...
At Work
On slow wings the marsh hawk is patrolling
possibility--soaring, sliding down almost to ground level,
twisting suddenly at something in the marsh hay or dune g...
2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $25,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is administered mutual...
Visions of the Sublime
One of the great benefits conferred by Modernism on our appreciation of traditional painting is that there is little inclination any longer to ascribe optical abnormalities ...
New York State of Mind
After two elegantly written, consistently engaging, critically praised, ambitious if not entirely satisfying novels, the prodigiously gifted Colson Whitehead has given the r...
