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2004 Stories by Doug Ireland

• Remembering Susan Sontag

  published December 30, 2004

  Photo by Annie LeibovitzI was quite pained to learn just now of the death of Susan Sontag. I first encountered Susan on the page... More >>

• 4 Ways to Find Out What’s Really Happening in Iraq

  published December 23, 2004

  Coverage of Iraq made this an annus horribilis for America’s major media. If you want to know why public opinion in Western Europ... More >>

• Gays on the Ropes

  published December 2, 2004

  Democrats, liberals and gays are all in denial about the meaning and extent of the defeat they suffered on Election Day — and abou... More >>

• Homo Hate

  published November 4, 2004

  The Republicans’ moralizing anti-gay crusade played a crucial role in George W. Bush’s re-election. The Rove-Bush decision to su... More >>

• Was Abe Lincoln Gay?

  published November 4, 2004

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• The George and John Show

  published September 30, 2004

  John Forbes Kerry won the televised duel with George Bush — both on demeanor and on points. The question is, will it make muc... More >>

• Quiet, Dear

  published September 30, 2004

  My L.A. Weekly story last week, “The Outing: David Dreier and Hi... More >>

• The Outing

  published September 23, 2004

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• McGreevey’s Closet

  published August 19, 2004

  Ever since powerful Ohio congressman Wayne Hayes’ downfall in the early ’70s for putting his mistress, Elizabeth Ray, on the congression... More >>

• Teaching Torture

  published July 22, 2004

  Remember how congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle deplored the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib as “un-American”? La... More >>

• Condom Wars

  published June 24, 2004

  Lethal new regulations from President Bush’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, quietly issued with n... More >>

• The Cheney Connection

  published June 17, 2004

  Was Halliburton, the oil conglomerate once headed by Dick Cheney, involved in a massive $180 million bribery scheme in Nigeria on Cheney’... More >>

• Royal Coke

  published May 6, 2004

  A book to be released this week in Paris lifts the veil on a sordid tale that even John Grisham would have had trouble inventing, about a... More >>

• Spain Flips Off W.

  published March 18, 2004

  “Old Europe” got its revenge. The Spanish elections eliminated George W. Bush’s most important ally on the European continent, registere... More >>

• Raw Prejudice

  published March 4, 2004

  A cartoon in the March 1 New Yorker shows a balding, middle-aged man and his wife gazing at the telly, as the man says: “Gays an... More >>

• Ralph’s Dark Side

  published February 26, 2004

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• A Prayer for Rev. Al

  published February 19, 2004

  In his 2003 autobiography, Al on America, the Rev. Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. admits, “I have been guilty of letting ungodl... More >>

• The Campaign Doctor

  published February 12, 2004

  Bob Shrum, the pricey Washington hired gun, is the tête pensant of John Kerry’s campaign. A veteran of the latter-day JFK’s... More >>

• The Two John Kerrys

  published February 5, 2004

  John Kerry is a man with two faces. There’s the fire-breathing populist whose thundering stump speeches against special interests made hi... More >>

• A Populist Make-over

  published January 29, 2004

  John Edwards has the best smile, the best hair and the most effective populist discourse of all the Democrats who want to be president. His... More >>

• Gephardt’s Last Stand

  published January 15, 2004

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