Patriot Acts Patriot Acts
In September 1950, four months into the Korean War, Congress passed the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA), known as the McCarran Act, after its sponsor, the Nevada Democratic...
Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mike Marqusee
Lost in America Lost in America
In no literature in the world has the immigrant novel been more varied, more original, more persistent than in ours--and this for the most obvious of reasons.
Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Pop and Circumstance Pop and Circumstance
You may recall the to-do occasioned two winters past by a certain shift in the mise-en-scène at the United Nations.
Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
An Appetite for Liebling An Appetite for Liebling
If we had four or five Abbott Joseph Lieblings in Iraq and Washington, it might be a different war, one in which those hugely amiable, observant and amusable souls could bring us...
Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / David Thomson
A Touchstone for Self-Reflection A Touchstone for Self-Reflection
Aside from the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving is the most distinctly American of our national holidays. As such, if we see it as more than just the day before the Christmas shoppin...
Nov 24, 2004 / John Nichols
Letters Letters
OIL--A REFINED IRAQ SCHEME Los Osos, Calif.
Nov 24, 2004 / Our Readers and Meline Toumani
Cultivating Opium, Not Democracy Cultivating Opium, Not Democracy
Afghanistan's crop "has spread like wildfire."
Nov 23, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
Thousands Protest SOA Thousands Protest SOA
A report from the SOA protests at Ft. Benning.
Nov 23, 2004 / Feature / Patrick Mulvaney
New Hampshire Recount, Act One New Hampshire Recount, Act One
Old-fashioned paper ballots are the best guarantee of the democratic process.
Nov 23, 2004 / Feature / Russ Baker
Stenographers to Power Stenographers to Power
The best question asked in the aftermath of the 2004 US election came from a British newspaper, The Daily Mirror, which inquired over a picture of George W. Bush, "How can 59,054,...
Nov 23, 2004 / John Nichols