magazine September 20, 2004

Party Hacks

Election chiefs trim voter rolls to benefit GOP

By Hans Johnson    elections politics

Hindering America’s Vote

The Help America Vote Act (HAVA), the electoral reform bill passed by Congress in 2002, is a mixed blessing.… more

By Steven Hill   

Sum of a Glitch

Evidence shows that machines might be the real swing voters this November

By Bev Harris    elections politics technology

Audacious and Hopeful

On the trail of Obama’s rising star

By David Moberg   

Chávez Hits a Home Run

Venezuela’s embattled president calls his own shot by winning the recall election

Deathly Silence

The growing genocide in Darfur testifies to the world’s disgrace

Protest Protector

Located three blocks from Madison Square Garden, the New York Civil Liberties Union Protecting Protest Storefront Space is insuring… more

We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore

How did the Party of Lincoln and Liberty transmogrify into the party of Newt Gingrich’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk?

By Garrison Keillor   

movies

Spin’s the Thing

How much credit, exactly, does Jonathan Demme’s remake of John Frankenheimer’s 1962 paranoid-nation classic The Manchurian Candidate get for… more

music

Up From the Wackness

Philadelphia’s The Roots have spent 13 years banging out organic hip-hop with real instruments and unquestionable swagger. They’ve also… more

By Chris Blose   

books

The Statistical Christs

In the decades following the Civil War, the northern half of the United States experienced massive social transformation. Large-scale… more

By Jefferson Decker   

Editorial

The Grand Delusion

George W. Bush shamelessly boasts that he doesn’t read. Of newspapers he said: “I glance at the headlines just to kind of [get]… more

Back Talk

Coming This Fall...

A real-life reality show: Who can be transformed from self-absorbed ignoramus to the Policy Swan?

The Third Coast

Keyes’ Ideological Quest

Alan Keyes, the conservatives’ black attack dog, has been dispatched to Illinois to sully the image of Barack Obama, the state’s Democratic candidate… more