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December 20, 2004 Issue
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Editorial
Nation Notes
The fourth annual winner of the Puffin/Nation Prize for 2004 is author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, a longtime contributor to this magazine, as well as to othe...
Defunct Economists
Professor Paul Samuelson's Economics: An Introductory Analysis has been the bestselling college economics textbook for more than fifty years.
Taking Liberties
Attorney General John Ashcroft has never been one to hide his anger under a bushel.
Ukraine’s Untold Story
However Ukraine's crisis is resolved, it is clear that interference by Russia and the United States has been massive. Viktor Yanukovich, the current Prime Minister, was Moscow...
DNC Makeover Time
Politics doesn't grant any long mourning periods. Democrats have to shake off the postelection blues--now--and begin agitating among themselves to create a very different part...
Column
Pakistan and the True WMD Threat
If it had been even a primitive nuclear weapon that hit the World Trade Center three years ago, hundreds of thousands of people would have died instead of fewer than 3,000, an...
Stop Crying, Start Working
How long did it take Republicans to write their thank-you note to the Christian right? About five minutes.
Politicize the CIA? You’ve Got to Be Kidding!
No alien penetration or treachery of double agents has ever done nearly as much damage to the CIA as the infighting consequent upon the arrival of each new director, charged b...
Feature
Books & the Arts
Godard’s Inferno
Michelangelo and Ulysses came home from the war with knapsacks bulging, bearing the reward for hardships suffered and inflicted. "We promised you the world," the soldiers boas...
False Promises
In American Dream, his masterful new book about welfare reform, Jason DeParle brings together two groups of people who rarely seem to meet: welfare policy-makers and we...
Body Heat
After the Kinsey Report but before the first Penthouse Forum, John Updike wrote, "He kneels in a kind of sickness between her spread legs.
The War That Never Was
As war threatened Europe in the 1930s, a physicist turned to a psychiatrist to help understand the impending violence.
