magazine January 5, 2004

Got Drugs?

The new Medicare prescription law is a policy disaster. It offers a pittance or worse for most elderly, is… more

By David Moberg   

Door by Door

Progressives hit the streets in massive voter outreach

By Christopher Hayes   

Voting Machines Gone Wild!

As the federally mandated deadline nears for state election officials to replace lever and punch-card voting machines with electronic… more

By Mark Lewellen-Biddle   

Putting the ‘Mass’ in Massachusetts

By reputation Massachusetts is the most Democratic state in the country, with good reason—its entire congressional delegation is Democratic,… more

By Frederick Clarkson   

Missing U.S.-Iraq History

With all the hoopla surrounding the capture of Saddam Hussein—“caught like a rat,” read the Chicago Tribune headline—it is… more

By Robert Parry   

The Candidates on George W. Bush

Bush bashing: It’s pointless, immature, detrimental to civil discourse and counterproductive in luring those all-important “NASCAR Dads” we’ve heard… more

By Brian Cook and Ana Hristova   

Goons Over Miami

It’s the police, not the protesters, getting violent

Cry Haiti

Trouble brews as country heads toward bicentennial

We Aren’t the World

Bills tie area studies funding to national interests

From Protest to Politics

When war begins progressive work doesn’t end

books

Of Senators and Framers

The cramped gift shop on the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol sells only one book by a serving… more

By John R. MacArthur   

Border Crossings

Once in a while, a group of films suddenly arrive all sharing the same topic. Though film distributors try… more

By Todd Lillethun   

books

Vietnam’s Lingering Voice

Near the end of the Vietnam War, as the antiwar movement roiled domestic politics and the Viet Cong showed… more

By Kim Phillips-Fein   

Take Bush Home, Country Roads

The Democrats need a nominee who can appeal to the angry left and the exasperated middle. Pass the mashed potatoes. Hello, Howard Dean.

Editorial

Corporate Medicare

Corporations not only buy Congress, they buy a political climate of voter self-disenfranchisement.

How to Fix the Medicare Mess

Congress considered human need only after placating the drug and insurance industries.

Farrakhan and the Beefs of Rap

Farrakhan’s recognition of hip-hop is unique among old-school black leaders, most of whom dismiss it as a vulgar aberration.

Back Talk

Dissing Dubya

As you know, many of us are more outraged over this presidency than perhaps any other (which is saying something). We’re also exasperated… more