In Fact…
GEORGE PLIMPTON
Print Magazine
October 20, 2003 Issue
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Editorial
Spanking Head Start
Used to be, nearly everyone--Democrat or Republican--loved Head Start, the federal preschool program for kids from low-income families. And why not?
Trading Barbs on Trade
When Paul Wellstone opted out of the 2000 presidential race, he fretted that trade policy would not be debated in the Democratic primaries and that the party would run a Nov...
Column
Death and Glory
The premature deaths in the past year of Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer ought to be enough to make the most pious among us angry at The Man Upstairs.
After You, My Dear Alphonse
What's the matter with conservatives? Why can't they relax and be happy? They have the White House, both houses of Congress, the majority of governorships and more money tha...
Letters
Feature
Judgment Day
The antigay bias that permeates the Republican Party can be clearly seen in Bush's judicial appointments. Among the unalloyed homophobes Bush has nominated for the federal b...
Books & the Arts
Judgment Day
The antigay bias that permeates the Republican Party can be clearly seen in Bush's judicial appointments. Among the unalloyed homophobes Bush has nominated for the federal b...
Our Victorian Ancestors
"You are the heirs of one of the country's great traditions, the Progressive movement that started late in the nineteenth century and remade the American experience piece by...
Justice Talking
In his memoir, Taking Liberties, Aryeh Neier emerges, almost despite himself, as a fascinating man.
In Our Orbit
In 1990, The Nation ran a dispatch from Portland, Oregon, by editorial board member Elinor Langer titled "The American Neo-Nazi Movement Today." The piece, which took...
London Kills Me
Monica Ali was recently named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists--an A-list of red-hot literary youth writing some of the most promising books on the con...
Death and Glory
The premature deaths in the past year of Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer ought to be enough to make the most pious among us angry at The Man Upstairs.
