Articles

A Day in the Life of the Palm Beach County Recount A Day in the Life of the Palm Beach County Recount

While Bush says counting votes by hand's unfair, Gore gains--a bubbe here, a zayde there.

Nov 16, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Caught in the WAVE Caught in the WAVE

A corporate antiviolence program targets students who don't fit in.

Nov 16, 2000 / Feature / Jane Spencer

The Butterfly Election The Butterfly Election

On Tuesday, November 14, exactly one week after Election Day (and with no President yet in sight), a notable though little-noted disclosure was made to the public. I do not mean ...

Nov 16, 2000 / Jonathan Schell

The Beat The Beat

 

Nov 16, 2000 / Column / John Nichols

Deregulate the Duopoly Deregulate the Duopoly

As rain dances used to serve certain primitive tribes and scripture still serves true believers, the two-party system serves as the religion of the political class. Never mind th...

Nov 16, 2000 / Theodore J. Lowi

The Martian Chronicles The Martian Chronicles

Long before Carrie-Anne Moss rips open Val Kilmer's shirt and begins pounding his chest, providing him with a version of CPR that she must have learned from a Japanese drum troup...

Nov 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Remembering Ring Remembering Ring

The quiet grace of Ring Lardner Jr., who died the other week at 85, seemed at odds with these noisy, thumping times. I cannot imagine Ring playing Oprah or composing one of those...

Nov 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Roger Kahn

In Fact… In Fact…

NATION NOTES A proposed 14.2 percent postage increase for periodicals was swept aside by the Postal Rate Commission in a recommendation issued on November 13. The five-member pre...

Nov 16, 2000 / The Editors

What Crisis? What Crisis?

There's an easy way to take your own pulse, and that of anyone you know, concerning the vertiginous events of the night of November 7. Was the apparent non-outcome really a "...

Nov 16, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Florida election 2000 recount

Making Every Vote Count Making Every Vote Count

What we need are election rules that encourage voter turnout rather than suppress it.

Nov 16, 2000 / Lani Guinier

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