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2004 Stories by Harold Meyerson

• The Army You Have . . .

  published December 16, 2004

  In January of 1942 — one month after the Pearl Harbor attack plunged America into war — Franklin D. Roosevelt went before Congre... More >>

• The Security Party

  published December 2, 2004

  So what went wrong, and what must we do to set it right? By many measures, the Democrats and progressives... More >>

• Where Did We Go Wrong?

  published November 11, 2004

  Of all the conversations I’ve had since Election Day, the saddest have been with Democratic get-out-the-vote operatives in Ohio and Florida... More >>

• Long Night’s Journey Into HELL

  published November 4, 2004

  There have been worse nights, I suppose. Kristallnacht, certainly. The nights of September 11, 2001, and December 7, 1941, were unbearably... More >>

• The Tsunami

  published October 28, 2004

  ORLANDO, Florida — I have seen the present, and it works — I think. I have spent the past week observing the offici... More >>

• Facts and the Fat Man

  published October 7, 2004

  Not since Sydney Greenstreet’s Casper Gutman strode onto the screen in The Maltese Falcon, extolling the virtues o... More >>

• Don’t You Know There’s a War On?

  published September 30, 2004

  Up until Thursday night, when John Kerry and George W. Bush met in debate at Coral Gables, the race for president had settled... More >>

• Kerry Speaks!

  published September 23, 2004

  NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON, John Kerry has found his voice. Since the earliest days of the Bush presidency, when Bush was airily... More >>

• Democratic Doldrums

  published September 9, 2004

  Photo by Ted Soqui The president, I suspect, is already descending. The Time and Newsweek polls, taken during (and, in... More >>

• Resoluter Than Kerry

  published September 2, 2004

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• Front-Porch Campaign

  published August 19, 2004

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• Capture the Flag

  published August 5, 2004

  BOSTON — The Democrats had themselves one whale of a Republican convention last week, and not just on the podium. Th... More >>

• All Together Now

  published July 29, 2004

  BOSTON — This is one upbeat convention, but at the point at which I came in, it was getting off to a near-funereal start. The occasio... More >>

• A Consensus Convention

  published July 22, 2004

  Silence and commotion: These are the defining attributes of the Democrats as they journey to Boston next week for their quadrennial national... More >>

• Party Man

  published July 8, 2004

  What was it that the dying Lenin, in his “last testament” to the comrades, called Bukharin? “The rightful favorite of the wh... More >>

• Cheney and Reality

  published June 24, 2004

  The Bush administration (n.) — The presidency (2001–2005) in which stubborn men were undaunted by stubborn facts. Ju... More >>

• Local Boy Makes Good

  published June 10, 2004

  He began as a local embarrassment. Sometime between his first election as governor of California, in November of 1966, and his inauguration... More >>

• Antonio Ponders

  published May 27, 2004

  In Los Angeles in this month of May, the working poor and their families still constitute a majority of city residents. Gang violence... More >>

• The Wordsmith

  published May 6, 2004

  The phone would ring, and at the other end would be that distinctive voice: high-pitched, deliberate in delivery so I wouldn’t miss an... More >>

• Enter the Hugger

  published April 29, 2004

  Against all odds, L.A. is going to have itself a bang-up mayoral election next year. It’s not supposed to be this way. Once th... More >>

• Liars and Lunatics

  published April 22, 2004

  One after another, they keep tumbling out: insider accounts of the Bush administration, from a high-ranking official (former Treasury... More >>

• The Obsessives

  published March 25, 2004

  WASHINGTON — The conversation has changed. After two weeks during which Bush administration henchmen have pounded John Kerry for hi... More >>

• Springtime for Democrats

  published March 4, 2004

  I. A Happy Ending for Act 1 So it’s a wrap for the presidential-primary season, and a fine season it was. In John Kerry, th... More >>

• Groundhog Day

  published February 26, 2004

  The way Ralph Nader talks about himself, you’d think he wa... More >>

• And Then There Were Two

  published February 19, 2004

  What lessons should John Kerry draw from his surprisingly close victory over John Edwards in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary? Move furthe... More >>