October 18, 2004
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Editorial
Junk Mail
The following solicitation from the Republican Committee to Re-elect the President (GOP-CREEP) reached us by mistake.
Dear Friend of the President:
Bruce McCall
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Kerry’s Trade Winds
Senator John Kerry has promised a revision of Clinton-era trade policies to insure that future agreements contain stronger, enforceable labor and environmental standards.
Tom Hayden and Lori Wallach
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Death on the Border
Now that a summerlong Homeland Security crackdown along the Arizona border is concluding, the results are in and they spell lethal failure.
Marc Cooper
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Election Matters
The thing that really galls Ralph Nader is not that so many of his prominent 2000 campaign supporters are now actively campaigning for Democrat John Kerry.
John Nichols
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Cheney’s Cronies
As he prepares to debate Halliburton CEO turned Vice President Dick Cheney, Senator John Edwards would do well to study up on his Harry Truman.
The Editors
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Column
The Buck Stops in the Voting Booth
It is difficult for members of the US Senate, where even the best are uncommonly proud, to admit that they are not always in the know. Perhaps that explains why Sen.
Robert Scheer
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Dumb and Dumber (and Dumber Still)
One problem with trying to write critically about this year’s election coverage is that by choosing any single aspect of its manifold failures, one automatically does an injustice to the full sco
Eric Alterman
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Wonderland
It is exasperating listening to the news as we approach this most important election. The coverage is all about comparing the length of the candidate’s sentences. How many big words do they use?
Patricia J. Williams
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Why the Republicans Might Be Right That Osama bin Laden Is Rooting for John Kerry
Bin Laden is the name I bear,
And, modestly, I think it’s fair
To say it’s thought by spies and cops
Among all terrorists I’m tops.
And therefore it’s a crying shaCalvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
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iCinema
Fussing repetitively with a lock of blond hair, nervously flashing an incomplete set of front teeth, the figure on screen begins to cough up her “testimony” in the accents of a Southern trailer c
Stuart Klawans
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This Canadian Life
The reviewer’s galley of Natasha, David Bezmozgis’s short-story collection about a Russian émigré family in Toronto, begins with words not from the writer but the publisher.
D.T. Max
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The Human Stain
The question has been asked: Was Franz Kafka human? He seems to have had doubts himself.
John Banville
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The Enigma of Return
In the largest exodus in recorded history, millions of refugees migrated across the brand new border after India was partitioned in 1947.
Amitava Kumar
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