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
Desperate Republicans Desperate Republicans
In the pregame highlights for the next two years of Republican one-party rule, rightwing radicals dropped their towels and exposed themselves in all their naked ambition last week...
Nov 23, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Road to BIAP The Road to BIAP
(Originally published on November 22) Days ago, I was speaking with a security consultant freshly back from a trip to Iraq, and I asked for h...
Nov 22, 2004 / David Corn
Modest Appointments Modest Appointments
Bush has appointed Torture Guy to run the American "Justice" Department, his "work wife" to serve as America's top diplomat, and a partisan hatchet man, Porter Goss, to subject th...
Nov 22, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Teaching Torture–UPDATED Teaching Torture–UPDATED
See below for an update More than 10,000 activists from across the US--including actors Martin Sheen and Susan Sarandon and musicians Amy Ray and Utah Phillips--will gather at t...
Nov 19, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Prisoner of Love Prisoner of Love
I was introduced to Bernard-Henri Lévy this spring at a stop on his latest book tour. It was a few minutes before he was due to face the audience.
Nov 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Robbins
Suspension of Disbelief Suspension of Disbelief
Ask Americans to enumerate their civil liberties and they instinctively turn to freedom of speech and the press.
Nov 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
What Bearden Taught Me What Bearden Taught Me
Also in this issue, an essay on Romare Bearden by Arthur C. Danto .
Nov 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / The Nation