NASHUA, N.H. — He’s got the experience, the Lincoln-like elongation, the Kennedy-esque turns of phrase, the environmental activists attesting to his record, and the guys from his gunboat attesting to his guts. But can John Kerry campaign? We’ll know soon enough — tonight, actually — just how he impressed the citizens of New Hampshire. Another […]
Harold Meyerson
Harold Meyerson is editor at large of The American Prospect.
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Pulling Punches
GOFFSTOWN, N.H. — The spin room of a desultory debate doesn’t really offer much in the way of spin. The Democrats are frozen in the grip of niceness just now; the specter of the penitent Howard Dean (D-Vt.), reciting his record as governor in hopes of arresting his fall, has put them all on painfully […]
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People Person
NASHUA, N.H. — Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) came here Wednesday afternoon speakin’ and shoutin’ populism. Well, not shoutin’ exactly. More like enthusiastically declaimin’. “I’m running for president so you will have a president who’s on your side,” he said, “and who will take on the powerful interests that stand in your way.” He named those […]
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Second-class citizens
If you work for a living in George W. Bush’s America, you’re a sap. Take a quick look, or a long one, at the tax code as Bush has altered it during his three years as president, and you’re compelled to conclude that work has become a distinctly inferior kind of income acquisition in the […]
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Dean and the Duke
I’ve got this Howard Dean problem, and it’s not that I think he’s George McGovern. Actually, I think he’s John Wayne. And not just any John Wayne, but the Duke in his greatest performances, in some of John Ford’s later movies. I know — it’s bad enough to tell my fellow liberals that I still […]
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Un-American Recovery
Why is the Bush recovery different from all other recoveries? A slump is a slump is a slump, but it’s during recoveries that the distinctive features of a changing economy become apparent. And our current recovery differs so radically from every other bounce-back since World War II that you have to wonder whether we’re really […]
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Muted Joy
Of course, the United States is safer now that Saddam Hussein is behind bars. Not nearly as safer as we’d be if the Saudi regime were supplanted by a more liberal, less Osama bin Laden-enamored one; or if our government had more diligently implemented the Nunn-Lugar Act and acquired more Soviet warheads that may now […]
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Do Good and Dump W.
I. WHAT’S RIGHT WITH THIS PICTURE? LAS VEGAS — In the middle of his life, Sylvester Garcia decided he’d had enough of the cold and the heat. He’d been a welder in the copper-mining towns of New Mexico for almost a quarter of a century, but, he says, “I got tired of welding, […]
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Wal-Mart Nation
I. WHAT’S RIGHT WITH THIS PICTURE? LAS VEGAS — In the middle of his life, Sylvester Garcia decided he’d had enough of the cold and the heat. He’d been a welder in the copper-mining towns of New Mexico for almost a quarter of a century, but, he says, “I got tired of welding, […]
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Outside Chance
There are two kinds of Democrats in George W. Bush’s America: those who are on the outside and know it, and those who are on the outside and don’t. And the peculiar fascination of the Democratic presidential campaign is to watch the interplay between these two groups. It is the Bush White House and the […]
