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The Beat The Beat

ROUGHED JUSTICE Ohio Supreme Court Justice Alice Robie Resnick's re-election campaign would have been a quiet waltz to a third six-year term were it not for the fact that the vet...

Oct 26, 2000 / Column / John Nichols

Bush–Rush to Judgment Bush–Rush to Judgment

"The death penalty's very serious business, Leo," Governor Bush condescendingly told a questioner in the third presidential debate. "There've been some tough cases come across my...

Oct 26, 2000 / Doug Magee

Impeachment: Whose Stain? Impeachment: Whose Stain?

Impeachment trials have notably lacked drama or even importance. Often, they have been an anticlimax to the convulsive events that precipitated them. Andrew Johnson's trial exten...

Oct 26, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stanley I. Kutler

Before the Sweet Hereafter Before the Sweet Hereafter

George Washington takes place in a small, weedy, rusty city in the American South, where children conduct their affairs with adult responsibility and adults behave like kids. The...

Oct 26, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

No MO Democrats? No MO Democrats?

The plane crash that took the life of Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan on October 16 appears to have been a disaster for the Democrats, not only in the Show Me state but nationally...

Oct 26, 2000 / Feature / Doug Ireland

In Fact… In Fact…

LIES AND DAMN LIES What's a political campaign without politicians calling each other liars? This one's been marked, however, at the presidential level, by strategic civility, a ...

Oct 26, 2000 / The Editors

Iraq’s Rehabilitation Iraq’s Rehabilitation

When members of the Arab League gathered for an emergency summit in Cairo on October 21 to discuss "the grave situation in the Palestinian Territories and its impact on the peace...

Oct 26, 2000 / Dilip Hiro

If Politics Got Real… If Politics Got Real…

If politics got real...the debate over costly prescription drugs would turn to more fundamental solutions like breaking up the pharmaceutical industry's patent monopolies, which ...

Oct 26, 2000 / William Greider

Cloud After Auschwitz Cloud After Auschwitz

You have "little trace," exclaimed Gershom Scholem in a letter he sent to the great Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt, of "love for the Jewish people." It was the early ...

Oct 26, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Neve Gordon

Taking the Initiatives Taking the Initiatives

In Michigan, it's a battle over school vouchers. In Alaska the fight is over medical marijuana. Nebraskans are being asked to outlaw civil unions. In Colorado, Amendment 25 would...

Oct 26, 2000 / The Editors

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