Letter From Ground Zero
A remarkable number of those in Blue America who hoped for an end to the Bush era on November 2 received the news of his election victory almost as if it had been a physical b...
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November 29, 2004 Issue
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Editorial
Banned in the USA
To describe the election results of November 2 as a setback for LGBT rights is an understatement.
The Faith Factor
Of all the loathsome spectacles we've endured since November 2--the vampire-like gloating of CNN commentator Robert Novak, Bush embracing his "mandate"--none are more repulsiv...
Ashcroft and After
Where will we be without John Ashcroft, his German shepherd's mug and fanatic's heart?
Yasir Arafat
Yasir Arafat died just as he lived most of his life, giving mixed signals to the world, provoking rivalries among intimates and arousing wild speculation from allies and enemi...
A Stolen Election?
Before the vote-counting was done, the e-mails started arriving. The election's been stolen! Fraud! John Kerry won! In the following days, these charges flew over the Internet...
Column
Taking the Hospital
In the postelection world, holding evangelical Protestantism up to the light has become all the rage, which does seem somewhat like shutting the barn door after the horse has ...
Pin the Terrorist on the Donkey
It's impossible to pinpoint any single factor that determined the Democrats' defeat on election day, but a significant disadvantage that is going unremarked in the discussion ...
Letters
Feature
Letter From Spain
When she was 30, Mónica M. fled her violent husband, taking her two small children and only the clothes on her back. But leaving did not solve her problems.
Books & the Arts
2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The tasks of poetry have never been more important or more difficult than they are now.
Masters of Their Universe
Beginning in the fifteenth century, Africa, Europe and the Americas came together in the Atlantic to create new economies, new cultures and new societies.
