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February 7, 2005 Issue
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Editorial
Party Cannibals
In December the leaders of the Democratic Leadership Council, Al From and Bruce Reed, published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about what the Democrats had to do t...
Babushkas vs. Putin
In February 1917 bread riots, led by women, many of them elderly, broke out in the center of St. Petersburg.
Iraq’s Lost Election
In the run-up to the January 30 election in Iraq, the prospects for a fair and credible outcome have steadily diminished.
Column
Jesus to the Rescue?
Can a dose of Christianity stiffen the Democrats' spine, win back Kansas and bring people power to the anemic left?
Harry’s Travails
Imagine, in the same month as the death of the muse of high camp, Susan Sontag, we have England in an uproar about Prince Harry and his silly armband.
Books & the Arts
Blood Simple
Half a century has passed since Manny Farber wrote in these pages about underground films, by which he meant the urban crime movies watched by male loiterers near the Greyhoun...
Men in Dark Times
"I am very happy to see so many flowers here and that is why I want to remind you that flowers, by themselves, have no power whatsoever, other than the power of men and women ...
In the Penal Colony
Alberto Gonzales's nomination to succeed John Ashcroft as Attorney General put the Abu Ghraib torture scandal back on the front pages, since he was directly implicated, as Whi...
