Political Figures

Ominous Pattern Ominous Pattern

What's up with the rural vote?

Sep 23, 2004 / Feature / John Nichols

C’mon Ralph, You’ve Nothing to Lose C’mon Ralph, You’ve Nothing to Lose

If I were Ralph Nader (and given the number of people screaming at me about stabbing Kerry in the back, I sometimes think I am), I'd get on the plane to Palestine and Baghdad and...

Sep 23, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, once a supporter of the war in Iraq, has been rethinking his position.

Sep 23, 2004 / Jonathan Schell

Where Rather Was Right Where Rather Was Right

When it comes to presidential politics there seem to be a half-dozen narratives favored by big (and small-minded) media: Who's ahead?, "Gotcha!", the (cynical) assumption that al...

Sep 23, 2004 / Victor Navasky

Election Matters Election Matters

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

Sep 23, 2004 / David Corn

Taking Liberties Taking Liberties

On September 2 a federal judge in Detroit threw out the only jury conviction the Justice Department has obtained on a terrorism charge since 9/11.

Sep 16, 2004 / David Cole

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

All Creatures Great and Small All Creatures Great and Small

It was an odd dream: The Bush twins were ten feet tall and peering in my window. They were snickering. "We had a hamster too..." they were saying, as though it were the merriest ...

Sep 16, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

A Short History of Someone Who Failed to Get Into the Champagne Unit of the Texas Air National Guard in 1968 A Short History of Someone Who Failed to Get Into the Champagne Unit of the Texas Air National Guard in 1968

I wasn't really for the war. But all my kin, in wars before, Had gone when called. I couldn't flee. No, Canada was not for me. Another thing that I was not

Sep 16, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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

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