Political Figures

Not Necessarily the First Lady Not Necessarily the First Lady

Nancy and Ronald Reagan met, they have repeatedly said, when she was blacklisted by mistake in the early 1950s after having been confused with another actress who had the same na...

Jun 7, 2004 / Feature / Jon Wiener

Libyan Epilogue Libyan Epilogue

Ronald Reagan understands the uses of terrorism. The air strike he ordered against Libya demonstrates that far more powerfully the press accounts available to Americans revealed.

Jun 7, 2004 / Ramsey Clark

The Age of Reaganism The Age of Reaganism

Not since the era of the late junior Senator from Wisconsin has an American political figure given this country an eponymous ism.

Jun 7, 2004 / Feature / Andrew Kopkind

Some of Our Best Friends Are Authoritarians Some of Our Best Friends Are Authoritarians

The Reagan Administration has made faint efforts to fake an attitude toward human rights; it has made no effort to implement a policy. Let's look at the record.

Jun 7, 2004 / Feature / Patricia Derian

Reagan’s Cowboy Capitalism Reagan’s Cowboy Capitalism

With firmness and style, President Reagan has commandeered the rhetorical high ground by his "program for economic recovery." The phrases and concepts of Reaganomics--get governm...

Jun 7, 2004 / Feature / Mark Green

Ronald Reagan and the Imperial Presidency Ronald Reagan and the Imperial Presidency

On October 19, stung by President Jimmy Carter's charges that he might involve the United States in a nuclear war if elected President, Ronald Reagan made a television address in...

Jun 7, 2004 / Feature / Ronnie Dugger

The Maxwell Affair The Maxwell Affair

Last November Foreign Affairs, the prestigious journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, published a review of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accoun...

Jun 3, 2004 / Scott Sherman

Election Matters Election Matters

On the day Senator John Kerry gave a Big Speech on national security, Win Without War--a coalition of forty-two antiwar organizations--called for the Administration to set a spec...

Jun 3, 2004 / David Corn

Kerry’s Dance Kerry’s Dance

It may have the ring of cliché, but America's next presidential election will be among the most crucial events in contemporary history.

Jun 3, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman

Kerry and Communion Kerry and Communion

Is it a sin for Catholics to vote for former altar boy John Kerry?

May 27, 2004 / John Nichols

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