Campaigns and Elections

Election Matters Election Matters

When John Kerry in a recent speech refocused his campaign by targeting George W.

Sep 23, 2004 / David Corn

Bush Spins at the UN Bush Spins at the UN

George W. Bush's September 21 speech to the United Nations, marked by an air of unreality and hypocrisy, was insulting to many other nations.

Sep 23, 2004 / The Editors

Debating the Great Debate Debating the Great Debate

This essay, from the November 11, 1960 issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on ...

Sep 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors

Bush’s Useful Idiot Bush’s Useful Idiot

Four years ago, Ralph Nader justified his third-party campaign on the grounds that the two parties represented nothing more than "Tweedledum and Tweedledee." As Americans die by ...

Sep 16, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman

Supporting the Troops, Doubting the War Supporting the Troops, Doubting the War

Iraq is changing lives and political sentiments in a small Midwest town.

Sep 16, 2004 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky

Security for Sale Security for Sale

This article is adapted from Sifry and Watzman's just-published Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day.

Sep 16, 2004 / Micah L. Sifry and Nancy Watzman

Election Matters Election Matters

The presidential pageant has now risen full in the sky and is blocking out the sun.

Sep 16, 2004 / William Greider

Command of the Truth Command of the Truth

It's one measure of the decay--and the promise--of American political discourse that Seymour Hersh's Chain of Command arrives at a moment when John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi's Unf...

Sep 16, 2004 / The Editors

If Only Kerry Were From the Bronx If Only Kerry Were From the Bronx

With some street smarts, he might call those Republican bums out.

Sep 14, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Why Bush Left Texas Why Bush Left Texas

We're pleased to announce that this article, originally posted on September 14, 2004, has won the Deadline Club's Online News Exclusive for 2005, beating out Newsday and Business ...

Sep 14, 2004 / Feature / Russ Baker

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