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Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On

The front-loaded primary regime produced its expected result by the first week in March: George W. Bush and Al Gore wrapped up the Republican and Democratic presidential nominati...

Mar 30, 2000 / Feature / Walter Dean Burnham

Progressive Presidential Politics (Continued) Progressive Presidential Politics (Continued)

Remember Barry Commoner's presidential campaign in 1980 on the Citizens' Party ticket? I thought not.

Mar 30, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Kosovo on Hold Kosovo on Hold

Clouds of blackbirds still do go wheeling and shrieking above Kosovo Polje, the bleak and windy site of the great Turkish victory over Serbia (and Albania) in 1389.

Mar 30, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

John McCain Is Welcomed Back to the Senate John McCain Is Welcomed Back to the Senate

Well, John, it's nice to have you back again. Your colleagues all paid close attention when You cast all those aspersions on this house.

Mar 30, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Who Is Putin? Who Is Putin?

Russia's third presidential election, on March 26, should have been historic--the first democratic transfer of Kremlin power via the ballot box.

Mar 30, 2000 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Pakistan on the Brink Pakistan on the Brink

Pakistan today is a complete mess, a sad example of what can happen when a once-favored "frontline state" is reduced to the status of a cold war orphan.

Mar 30, 2000 / Feature / Tariq Ali

It’s Payback Time for Bush Contributors It’s Payback Time for Bush Contributors

Let's see which Bush softball we can hit out of the park this week. Should it be tolerating arsenic in the water supply, cutting funds for abused children or eliminating the hist...

Mar 28, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Pigeons Home to Roost Pigeons Home to Roost

Star vehicle?

Mar 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The ‘Casanova of Causes’ The ‘Casanova of Causes’

To her biographer, Simone de Beauvoir confided a less than rhapsodic one-night stand, in 1946, with the Hungarian malcontent Arthur Koestler: "One night I got so drunk I let him ...

Mar 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard

Shopping Till We Drop Shopping Till We Drop

During the past two decades, as random financial crises visited various fast-growing economies, we have become familiar, after the fact, with the profile of a developing country ...

Mar 22, 2000 / Feature / William Greider

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