McCain in Vain? McCain in Vain?
In Washington, all politics is personality. Or so it often seems. After the Jim Jeffords jump, the media zoomed in on Senator John McCain and breathlessly penned a new chapter in ...
Jun 7, 2001 / David Corn
Florida Revisited Florida Revisited
With each new look at the November election in Florida, the argument of the Bush Five on the Supreme Court--that manual recounts would lead to the unequal treatment of voters--app...
Jun 7, 2001 / The Editors
Nation Notes Nation Notes
We're pleased to announce that John Nichols joins national affairs correspondent William Greider and Washington editor David Corn in covering politics and policy from the capital....
Jun 7, 2001 / The Editors
Blindness in Gaza Blindness in Gaza
The bombing of a Tel Aviv disco, in which twenty Israelis, many of them teenagers, were killed, was an atrocity of such horror that it seemed to shock both sides into taking steps...
Jun 7, 2001 / The Editors
The Littlest Coke Addicts The Littlest Coke Addicts
The March 14 announcement by the Coca-Cola Company that it is scaling back its aggressive marketing strategy in public schools is a clear victory for opponents of schoolhouse comm...
Jun 7, 2001 / Steven Manning
Not This Time in LA Not This Time in LA
Politics, they say, is the art of the possible. And for much of the spring it seemed possible that America's second-largest city would elect as its mayor a progressive Latino who ...
Jun 7, 2001 / John Nichols
‘Moral’ Execution ‘Moral’ Execution
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Jun 6, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
Harvard’s ‘Fitting Choice’ Harvard’s ‘Fitting Choice’
On July 1 Larry Summers--the Wunderkind economist who ran the Treasury Department under President Clinton--takes over as president of Harvard University.
Jun 5, 2001 / Matt Bivens
‘Violence’ in Cincinnati ‘Violence’ in Cincinnati
The urban rebellion in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine neighborhood that followed the April 7 death of yet another black man, Timothy Thomas, at the hands of police shocked city resid...
May 31, 2001 / Thomas A. Dutton
Bringing Down the Senate Bringing Down the Senate
Vermont, as John Kenneth Galbraith once observed, is the only state in the union represented in Congress by a Democrat, a Republican and a Socialist, who all vote more or less ali...
May 31, 2001 / The Editors