Is this our fate?
Todd Gitlin
openDemocracys North America editor witnessed the events in New York on 11 September 2001. This is his first response.
A fog of terrorism
The Republican carnival strived to look benign, but the quality of their oratory was strained, and the mask kept slipping.
The party had come to New York as if to
The smear campaign I wrote about last week is still erupting and has not come close to burning out. Why such heat? The unfinished Vietnam war, for sure. But our
Dont let anyone tell you Jonathan Demmes remake of The Manchurian Candidate is retro. It turns out to be less nostalgic and more prophetic than anyone could have
So it came to pass that the guardedly exultant Democrats folded up their Boston tents sounding like winners, having delivered themselves of several impressive speeches (Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Teresa
As the Democrats started their week of fervent (and sometimes desolate) hope, unfurling themselves for the fight of their lives, CBS anchorman Dan Rather called the Democratic Convention basically an
I wrote last week about some elements of the deep campaign: mobilizations and countermobilizations churning along beneath the visible surface, adding up to a spotty but real revival of politics.
Beneath the incessantly overreported spectacles with their overinterpreted gestures, beneath the rumors (what does Karl Rove know and when did he know it?) and nightmare scenarios (does anyone
The candidate is phony, disingenuous, unaccomplished, inexperienced. His maturity is questioned by experts. He lacks military and foreign policy experience. Hes been accused of being ambitious. His campaign lacks
André Gide, when asked in 1905 whom he considered the greatest French poet of the 19th century, is said to have replied: Victor Hugo, hélas!
Who is the most compelling,
I mentioned last week that Americas Catholic bishops were meeting in Colorado to decide how to handle Catholic politicians like John Kerry (and even Catholics who vote for them)
In 1992, during prime time, the bumptious fringer Pat Buchanan frightened the Jesus out of Democrats and a hardy survivalist remnant of Republican moderates with this famous-cum-notorious invocation at the
