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November 15, 2004 Issue
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Editorial
Letter From Ground Zero
As the final week of the campaign season expires (this column goes to press on October 27), George W.
Nation Notes
The Nation Institute is pleased to announce the first Alfred A. Knobler Journalism Fellow.
Nader’s Flawed Calculus
From the start of his independent campaign for the presidency early this year, Ralph Nader constantly argued that he would draw as many or more votes from Republican George W.
Taking Liberties
As I write, several days before the election, Congress's last-minute effort to enact the 9/11 Commission's recommendations appears to have stalled, largely because of disagree...
Antifeminists Hit Iraq
As the right wing's antifeminist front, the sisters of the Independent Women's Forum have been such a hit in this country that they're now getting taxpayer money to take their...
Iraq’s Civilian Casualties
The civilians of Falluja are negotiating to stave off a threatened US-led military incursion.
Fix the Electoral System
Before most votes were cast in the November 2 presidential election, and before any of them were counted, tens of millions of Americans worried about whether the nation's patc...
Column
Carlyle Covers Up
Less than twenty-four hours after The Nation disclosed that former Secretary of State James Baker and the Carlyle Group were involved in a secret deal to profit from Ir...
Faith-based Journalism: The Refs Work Themselves
Even though we've lived with it for more than thirty years now, it's hard not to marvel at the effectiveness of the right's campaign to intimidate, cajole and complain their w...
Voting Blocks
Six more days till the election. As of this writing (October 27), nothing is certain. The election polls are bouncing around like yo-yos.
Letters
Feature
The View From Vermont
Dr. Deborah Richter has advocated state-sponsored health insurance for every Vermonter, at nearly fifty Rotary Clubs plus chambers of commerce and boardrooms.
Books & the Arts
War Games
In the players' handbooks that once circulated among commedia dell'arte troupes, the wandering actors of early modern Italy used to set down inventories of the lazzi...
Darkness Visible
The remarkably gifted artist Francesca Woodman abruptly ended her brief life and career on January 19, 1981, leaping to her death from a window in her New York studio.
The Gods Must Be Crazy
"Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply felt religious faith--and I don't care what it is." Thus spoke the noted theologian Dwight Eisenhower on Flag D...
