L’Amérique, Mon Amour L’Amérique, Mon Amour
Along with the Bible and Moby-Dick, Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America has got to be one of the world's least-read classics.
Apr 8, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
The Beat Bush Brigades The Beat Bush Brigades
Dozens of progressive groups are working on everything from TV ads to voter turnout.
Apr 8, 2004 / Feature / John Nichols
Dishonest, Moronic or Both? Dishonest, Moronic or Both?
Grover Norquist, the right's premier political organizer, once told me that the most significant difference between liberal journalists and conservative journalists is that t...
Apr 8, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Trouble With 527s The Trouble With 527s
What should be done about 527s--those new organizations used primarily by Democrats (so far) to skirt the McCain-Feingold legislation passed in 2002?
Apr 8, 2004 / David Corn
A New Populist on the Block A New Populist on the Block
South Dakota has a proud populist tradition. In the late 19th-century, the state's farmers faced plummeting wheat prices and mounting piles of debt at the hands of large Eastern ...
Apr 8, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Turning Point in Iraq Turning Point in Iraq
When asked why the United States should not invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein, a prescient critic said, "Once you've got Baghdad, it's not clear what you do with it.
Apr 8, 2004 / The Editors
Chronicle of a Disappearance Chronicle of a Disappearance
A rough but accurate gauge of national resilience: When dictators fall, how soon do filmmakers rise again? In the case of Argentina, the recovery was impressively quick.
Apr 8, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Prison Without Walls Prison Without Walls
Our nation's two-decade spree of building prisons and sentencing even nonviolent criminals to long spells inside them has produced a staggering number of incarcerated people in A...
Apr 8, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Egan
Condemned to Death Condemned to Death
Thanks to the US-led drug war, AIDS is exploding among injection drug users.
Apr 8, 2004 / Feature / Daniel Wolfe
Pregnant and Dangerous Pregnant and Dangerous
The good news is that Utah has dropped murder charges against Melissa Rowland, who rejected her doctors' advice to undergo an immediate Caesarean section and gave birth to a stil...
Apr 8, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt