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09 February 2004
Ladies and Gentleman: President Edwards! (After all, he did win South Carolina)
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Alexander Cockburn
The field of battle is littered with the dead and the dying.

            Senator Joe Lieberman had pinned his hopes on Delaware, the state of ten thousand corporations, whose motto, "nihil a me alienum puto," translates as "...
09 February 2004
McNamara: The Sequel
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Alexander Cockburn
Apparently to Robert McNamara's mortification, Errol Morris, whose film "The Fog of War" I discussed recently, passes over his subject's 13-year stint running the World Bank, whither he was dispatched by LBJ, Medal of Freedom in hand....
08 February 2004
Wasserman column
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Ivan Swift
Harvey Wasserman is right about a lot of things in his Jan 22 column but he's wrong on forgetting the south in the presidential campaign. Only by working hard in the south and making a real contest out of it, will the democratic nominee...
01 February 2004
We are not safer
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Jeff Rosenbaum
Dear Harvey,

I only wish that someone would write a set of responses to those "shut them up" lines used by the conservatives today, and one of them seems to be "you can't deny that the world is safer now that Saddam Hussein is out...

31 January 2004
Re: Book review ("Red Alert") and new articles
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Carole A. Kronberg
As a senior American who cherishes our traditional "innocent until proven guilty" legal premise, I loathe the Bush administration's insistence upon paranoia as the basis for new, unreasonably restrictive public procedures here at home...
28 January 2004
The fog of cop-out: Robert McNamara 10, Errol Morris 0
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Alexander Cockburn
My dear friend and late Nation colleague Andrew Kopkind liked to tell how, skiing in Aspen at the height of the Vietnam War, he came around a bend and saw another skier, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, alone near the edge of a precipice...

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