I’m Counting My Heart Out for You I’m Counting My Heart Out for You
(Lyrics found on a table inside a state building in Miami-Dade County) I'm counting my heart out for you. The votes I am finding are few. We hear the mob right in the h...
Nov 30, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Vesuvius Vesuvius
Whoever wins the legal battles over the election, and with them the presidency, recent events will cast a long shadow over American political life in the years ahead. For the fir...
Nov 30, 2000 / Jonathan Schell
Down for the Count Down for the Count
Was it only a few short weeks ago that I turned on the TV in my hotel room to hear conservative commentator Tucker Carlson explain to Don Imus that Gore would win the Floridian c...
Nov 30, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Mumia and Free Speech Mumia and Free Speech
Could an American citizen be sentenced to jail simply for making a speech? If the speech is in defense of Pennsylvania death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal and the speaker is an acti...
Nov 30, 2000 / Dave Lindorff
To Hell in His Handbasket To Hell in His Handbasket
Travel writing is a dismal art. From Herodotus, wide-eyed (and perhaps more than a little disoriented) in an India of man-eating ants and black sperm; to Ibn Batuta, the fourteen...
Nov 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Akash Kapur
In Fact… In Fact…
PALM BEACH STORY With challenges to vote counts flying furiously throughout Florida, we presume to advise an attorney for one group of complainants--those voters in Palm Beach Co...
Nov 30, 2000 / The Editors
Yes, We’re the Great Pretenders Yes, We’re the Great Pretenders
Three days before the election, I took part in a television panel with former White House flack Joe Lockhart, who was doing his best to hold up his end of the tattered Gore-Lieberm...
Nov 30, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Talking With ‘Red Ken’ Talking With ‘Red Ken’
London's new mayor is Thatcher's old nemesis. Is he also a leading indicator?
Nov 30, 2000 / Feature / Maria Margaronis and D.D. Guttenplan
No Health, No Wealth No Health, No Wealth
Foundations formed when nonprofit hospitals became for-profit are often not living up to their obligations.
Nov 30, 2000 / Feature / Annette Fuentes and Rosemary Metzler Lavan
Rush to ‘Closure’ Rush to ‘Closure’
Here's the Bush idea of electoral reform: Cancel the election. The Florida legislature's move to choose the state's electors and declare George W. Bush the next President is only...
Nov 30, 2000 / The Editors