Political Figures

Dean’s No Wellstone Dean’s No Wellstone

Lately, presidential contender Howard Dean has been likening himself to the late Senator Paul Wellstone.

May 8, 2003 / Jim Farrell

Brezhnev, Bush and Baghdad Brezhnev, Bush and Baghdad

Many Russians who fled Brezhnev's USSR because they could not speak freely are in a state of shock in today's America. One is Roman Kaplan, an intellectual from Leningrad (now ...

May 5, 2003 / Feature / Nina Khrushcheva

Rumsfeld’s Untidy World Rumsfeld’s Untidy World

On April 11th--the day of the most widespread and uncontrolled looting in Iraq--Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld produced one of the more sour notes of the nascent postwar perio...

Apr 25, 2003 / Feature / Jonathan Miller

President George W. Bush speaks at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, in 2007.

The Republican Party’s Goal Is to Destroy the Federal Government The Republican Party’s Goal Is to Destroy the Federal Government

For years, their driving ambition has been to get government “down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”  

Apr 24, 2003 / Feature / William Greider

Bush Goes AWOL Bush Goes AWOL

One of the many maddening feats of this Administration is that in choosing to fight the war on terror by going to war with Iraq, George W. Bush has inspired new terrorist threa...

Apr 17, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman

History? What History? History? What History?

Allowing the looting of Iraq's museums is another indication of our contempt for the Mideast -- and our unfitness to rule it

Apr 16, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

Sacrifice Is for Suckers Sacrifice Is for Suckers

In his address to the nation on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, George W.

Apr 10, 2003 / Robert L. Borosage

Everything George Bush Needs to Know He Learned on the Playground Everything George Bush Needs to Know He Learned on the Playground

Let's say that from the east while you look south An icy snowball hits you in the mouth. You see the kid who did it run, the wretch,

Apr 10, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Rumsfeld Should Go

Rumsfeld Should Go Rumsfeld Should Go

This editorial was originally published in the April 21, 2003 issue of The Nation.

Apr 3, 2003 / The Editors

The Washington Wars The Washington Wars

By the start of the third week of war, Bush was bogged down in Mesopotamia and Washington.

Apr 3, 2003 / David Corn

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