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Isn't it curious how often the policy disaster that is posited as the thing that will never happen takes place within minutes?

Jan 6, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Campaign Mystery Campaign Mystery

Conservatives cannot explain Just why reporters boost McCain. It seems an odd way to express The liberal bias of the press.

Jan 6, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Answers Are… The Answers Are…

In our November 29 issue appeared "The Presidential Aptitude Test," a proposed snap quiz for candidates inspired by George W. Bush's flunking a test on the names of certain forei...

Jan 6, 2000 / The Editors

Greenspan and Gravity Greenspan and Gravity

The giddy adoration of Alan Greenspan has come to resemble the stock market bubble itself and, when one phenomenon comes to its end, so will the other.

Jan 6, 2000 / William Greider

President Putin? President Putin?

Boris Yeltsin's sudden resignation as President on New Year's Eve provoked ritual praise of his legacy by the same editorial voices that have been championing him for nine years ...

Jan 6, 2000 / The Editors

A Far-Right Nominee Who’s All Wrong A Far-Right Nominee Who’s All Wrong

How ironic that Ashcroft's supporters now ask that he be treated with kid gloves during his own nomination hearings.

Jan 2, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Our Century: The Nineties Our Century: The Nineties

The Character of Presidents The President we get is the country we get. With each new President the nation is conformed spiritually.

Dec 23, 1999 / Feature / The Editors

Our Century: The Eighties Our Century: The Eighties

Protest and Survive Ihave come to the view that a general nuclear war is not only possible but probable, and that its probability is increasing....

Dec 23, 1999 / Feature / The Editors

Our Century: The Seventies Our Century: The Seventies

Death of a Soldier

Dec 23, 1999 / Feature / The Editors

Our Century: The Sixties Our Century: The Sixties

Dec 23, 1999 / Feature / The Editors

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