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Gore and His Reinventions Gore and His Reinventions

What an odd presidential race! So long as George W. Bush keeps his mouth shut and remains in seclusion he floats up in the polls. His best strategy would be to bag the debates, t...

Sep 28, 2000 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Walker in the Imagined City Walker in the Imagined City

Ben Katchor had been a bit of a cultural phenomenon for nearly a decade before he became a MacArthur fellow--a first for a cartoonist--this summer; is this the beginning of comic-s...

Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Paul Buhle

Stop, Thief! Stop, Thief!

Neoconservatives are serial grave-robbers. Back in the early eighties, Norman Podhoretz tried to claim both Ronald Reagan and George Orwell as part of his meshuggeneh mishpocheh....

Sep 28, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman

Letters Letters

Our readers and Ellen Schrecker and Maurice Isserman on "The Right's Cold War Revision."

Sep 25, 2000 / Our Readers

Up for Grabs Up for Grabs

No matter what the next President or Congress may do or think, among the three branches of the federal government, the Supreme Court is often first among supposed equals.

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Tom Wicker

‘The Big Discourse’ ‘The Big Discourse’

Unusually sensitive to the fast-changing character of liberal social structures, C. Wright Mills proved impervious to the bitter ironies of reform.

Sep 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Summers

The Supreme Court Issue The Supreme Court Issue

The Rehnquist Court's paeans of praise for state government are belied by reality.

Sep 25, 2000 / Herman Schwartz

Earth in the Judicial Balance Earth in the Judicial Balance

To date, the Rehnquist Court's environmental record has been mixed. While no darling of the greens, neither has it been consistently "brown."

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / James Salzman

Is the Wall Crumbling? Is the Wall Crumbling?

The current Supreme Court is so divided on fundamental questions of separation of church and state. that the appointment of one or two conservative Justices could well tip the bala...

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Norman Redlich

First Amendment for the Rich? First Amendment for the Rich?

At stake is whether the twenty-first-century First Amendment will be a protector of the powerful or a resource for the weak and disfranchised.

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Burt Neuborne

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