Political Figures

You Can’t Blame Nader for This You Can’t Blame Nader for This

Let's hedge this with all the usual qualifiers. Kerry could pull it out. The spread's within the margin of error. Respondents to polls are lying out of fear of John Ashcroft.

Oct 21, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

John Kerry for President John Kerry for President

The presidential campaign debates are over, and the time for decision has come. The Nation endorses Senator John Kerry to be the next President of the United States.

Oct 21, 2004 / The Editors

Playing the Age Card Playing the Age Card

This essay is adapted from Margaret Morganroth Gullette's Aged by Culture.

Oct 14, 2004 / Margaret Morganroth Gullette

Roe = Dred Roe = Dred

Many viewers were puzzled when, toward the end of the second debate, George W. Bush answered a question about Supreme Court nominees by referring to the Dred Scott case.

Oct 14, 2004 / Katha Pollitt

Election Matters Election Matters

As he began his seventh campaign swing this year through the battleground state of Wisconsin on a sunny day in late September, George W. Bush loaded a secret weapon onto hi...

Oct 14, 2004 / John Nichols

Hammer  Strikes–Out?

Hammer Strikes–Out? Hammer Strikes–Out?

Has Tom DeLay--a k a The Hammer--hit his last nail? Not yet, but the Republican House majority leader has sustained his own whacks recently for a series of unethica...

Oct 14, 2004 / The Editors

The James Baker Documents The James Baker Documents

Read Naomi Klein's Piece Letter dated January 20 2004 from International Strategy Group, Coudert Brothers and The Albright Group (pdf).

Oct 13, 2004 / Feature / The Nation

James Baker’s Double Life James Baker’s Double Life

Bush's special envoy has a private interest in Iraqi debt, documents reveal.

Oct 12, 2004 / Feature / Naomi Klein

The Right Wing’s Drive for ‘Tort Reform’ The Right Wing’s Drive for ‘Tort Reform’

Thanks to damage caps and other measures, victims are often unable to sue.

Oct 7, 2004 / Feature / Dan Zegart

On the President’s Boast That He Knew Osama Bin Laden Rather Than Saddam Hussein Was Behind 9/1 On the President’s Boast That He Knew Osama Bin Laden Rather Than Saddam Hussein Was Behind 9/1

That's excellent. So tell us: Why did you For months imply the opposite was true? And why does Cheney (Nanny Dick) still flog

Oct 7, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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