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January 26, 2004
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Feature
And the Winner Is…
Despite the frigid weather, the line to get into Hammerstein Ballroom snaked all the way down Manhattan’s 34th Street the night of January 12. Vendors hawked shirts with slogans like “George W.
Elana Berkowitz
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Nader and the Newmanites
What in the world is Ralph Nader doing with the ultrasectarian cult-racket formerly known as the New Alliance Party?
Doug Ireland
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Dean’s Fifty-State Strategy
Iowa and New Hampshire are important, but it takes 2,162 delegates to win.
John Nichols
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Butching up for Victory
Bush projects macho, but it looks forced. Could Howard Dean be the “it” candidate?
Richard Goldstein
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Editorial
Lenny From Heaven
Lenny Bruce, the potty-mouthed wit who turned stand-up comedy into social commentary, was posthumously pardoned yesterday by Gov. George E.
Richard Lingeman
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Helping Nader Decide
There is no segment of Americans more attuned to Ralph Nader’s prophetic themes than Nation readers–many of whom supported his presidential candidacy in 2000.
The Editors
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Economics 2004
The Democratic Party has come a long way from the “lockbox” economics of 2000.
William Greider
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Rebuilding Afghanistan
After twenty-one tension-filled days of raucous speeches, poetry readings, threats, bribery and walkouts, Afghanistan’s loya jirga, held to endorse a new Constitution for Afghanistan after
Ahmed Rashid
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Mad Cow, Mad Policy
When Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman and the agribusiness insiders-turned-“regulators” who run George W.
The Editors
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Column
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Baghdad Beat
There’s a wonderful children’s story by Roald Dahl titled Fantastic Mr. Fox. Mr. Fox is a wily fellow whose record of chicken theft has driven three local farmers to the point of madness.
Patricia J. Williams
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Bush as Hitler? Let’s Be Fair
Editor’s Note: The Nation gives its columnists the widest possible latitude and, as readers know, their views are not always those of the magazine. In this instance, however, the editor wants to go on record as disagreeing profoundly with the analogies made by Alexander Cockburn in this column.
Alexander Cockburn
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On Winning the War and Losing the Alerts
We’re fighting terror in Iraq, Bush says,
So we won’t have to fight these guys right here.
Then why the orange alerts and canceled flightsCalvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
The Closest of Strangers
Tony Kushner’s latest play, Caroline, or Change, left me contemplating its curious title, which suggests an indecisive playwright. Why not just Caroline, or simply Change?
Baz Dreisinger
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A Near Perfect Spy Novelist
A year ago now, when the Bush Administration was preparing the world for an American invasion of Iraq, John le Carré wrote a column of scathing, sharp-toothed commentary for the Times
Patrick Smith
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A Magical Realist and His Reality
As ways of writing about a past, memoirs and autobiographies, although in practice they may often overlap, are different undertakings.
Perry Anderson
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Letters
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