Vanishing Votes
On October 29, 2002, George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). Hidden behind its apple-pie-and-motherhood name lies a nasty civil rights time bomb.
Print Magazine
May 17, 2004 Issue
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Editorial
Kerry: Fill in the Blanks
It is time--past time--for John Kerry to tell Americans what he is about.
Dick’s Vietnam Hypocrisy
Dick Cheney has positioned himself as the Bush Administration's point man in the ongoing work of questioning the national security credentials of presumptive Democratic pres...
Post-Feminism, R.I.P.
By the most conservative estimates, the March for Women's Lives in Washington on April 25 was the biggest pro-choice demo ever--and it may have been the biggest march of any...
Column
When We’re the Evildoers in Iraq
President Bush is again refusing to take responsibility for any of the horrors happening on his watch.
Stupid Leaders, Useless Spies, Angry World
The stark fact that significant portions of our planet are under the supervision of exceptionally stupid and ill-informed people is provoking unwonted expressions of anger a...
Mutiny in Iraq
Can we please stop calling it a quagmire? The United States isn't mired in a bog or a marsh in Iraq (quagmire's literal meaning); it is free-falling off a cliff.
For Their Own Good
One of my favorite little films is a satirical documentary titled Babakiueria.
Letters
Books & the Arts
The Kids Are Alright
Several of the recent Whitney Biennials have aspired to something more than a display of "the latest in American Art," to cite the phrase used to advertise the current...
The Unfinished Revolution
I was 25 when I and the rest of black South Africa were eligible to vote for the first time. South Africa celebrated the tenth anniversary of that event this April.
Unforgettable
"This is a book written in the presence of music." So begins Geoffrey O'Brien's sprawling memoir-cum-critical essay, and the reader is tempted to ask: What book isn't?
