Ten Talking Points on New Hampshire Ten Talking Points on New Hampshire
1. Performance doesn't matter. Of all the candidates, Senator John Edwards delivered the best stump speech, in which he decried the existence of "tw...
Jan 28, 2004 / David Corn
Angry-About-the-War Candidate Angry-About-the-War Candidate
John Edwards is not running for the Democratic nomination as an anti-war candidate. Even in a campaign that has been defined by nothing so much as a constant process of redefiniti...
Jan 26, 2004 / John Nichols
A No-Issues Contest A No-Issues Contest
"We're in a war of ideas!" So declared Bill Barry, chairman of the Nashua, New Hampshire, Democrats, when he enthusiastically introduced Senator John Edward...
Jan 26, 2004 / David Corn
Oligarchs for Bush Oligarchs for Bush
Do you have 250 family members, friends, associates, and colleagues who can afford to give $2,000 to President Bush? On January 22, the Washington Post reported that there's now...
Jan 25, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Populists of New Hampshire The Populists of New Hampshire
There is the Angry Populist, the Calm Populist, the Polite Populist, the Executive Populist, and the Radical Populist. That's who racing across New Hampshir...
Jan 24, 2004 / David Corn
A Dud of a Debate A Dud of a Debate
The New Hampshire Democratic presidential debate was supposed to be the Super Bowl of the primary season face-offs. It was--only in that it was long...
Jan 23, 2004 / David Corn
Bush helps CBS, CBS helps Bush Bush helps CBS, CBS helps Bush
The annual Super Bowl game draws a huge audience of television viewers – 130 million Americans are expected to view the game February 1 -- and advertisers of all types want to r...
Jan 22, 2004 / John Nichols
You Had to Be There You Had to Be There
Robin Blackburn spent 1968 in Havana, Prague, Berlin and London.
Jan 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn
Lust for Life Lust for Life
The afterlife of Italian poet, novelist, critic and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini brings to mind some familiar lines from Auden's "In Memory of W.B.
Jan 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / George Scialabba
All You Need Is a Girl and a Gun All You Need Is a Girl and a Gun
Colin MacCabe's new book is more a provocative polemic than a rounded biography, but it deserves the highest praise for being inspired by the belief that in the early 1960s Jean-...
Jan 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / David Thomson