The Left

Seeds of Hope Seeds of Hope

At the close of 2004, progressives can be forgiven for feeling they've found themselves in a particularly bleak midwinter.

Dec 22, 2004 / The Editors

‘Big Ideas Need Sharp Elbows’ ‘Big Ideas Need Sharp Elbows’

We may never reach a consensus on just what it was about George W.

Dec 9, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman

Being Left Being Left

Reflections on love and politics.

Dec 7, 2004 / Kathryn Schulz

Looking Back, Looking Forward Looking Back, Looking Forward

THEDA SKOCPOL

Dec 2, 2004 / Feature / Various Contributors

Progressives: Get Ready to Fight Progressives: Get Ready to Fight

Applying the lessons of 2004.

Nov 11, 2004 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage

Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You

"Why Is He Losing?" was the title I initially gave my last column here two weeks ago, and my Nation editor, Roane Carey, worried that this was maybe too pessimistic, amid suppose...

Nov 4, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Dissent at 50 Dissent at 50

In the summer of 1953, the New School for Social Research hung a yellow curtain over a mural by the Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco. Orozco's transgression?

Oct 14, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Scott Sherman

Kerry a Bleeding Heart? Hardly Kerry a Bleeding Heart? Hardly

Thank you, George W. Bush, for trying to assure me that John Kerry is a liberal. Wish it were so.

Oct 12, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Bush Bashers & the Bashers Who Bash Them Bush Bashers & the Bashers Who Bash Them

For well over a decade now, right-wingers and Republicans have heaped insult, lies and slander on liberals and Democrats, who responded for the most part by becoming starchy, sel...

Aug 26, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Zombies for Kerry Zombies for Kerry

Didn't John Kerry ever read about rope-a-dope? Karl Rove must be kicking his heels with merriment at the way the horse-faced son of Boston is tangling himself up in the Swift Boa...

Aug 26, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

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