Why the Polls Were Wrong Why the Polls Were Wrong
Some debatable assumptions underlie their use by the press.
Dec 14, 2000 / Anna Greenberg
Hurrah for Old EC! Hurrah for Old EC!
We're sorry, but it is not technically feasible for us to post the hilarious Robert Grossman cartoon that appears in the editorial section of the print edition.
Dec 14, 2000 / Robert Grossman
2001: A Force to Reckon With 2001: A Force to Reckon With
Powerful elements converged to determine who would be president.
Dec 14, 2000 / Jonathan Schell
The God That Failed The God That Failed
The Supreme Court was determined to make George W. Bush the winner of the election.
Dec 14, 2000 / Herman Schwartz
Daniel Singer Daniel Singer
Death came as a release for Daniel Singer on December 2, but we feel like protesting its rude intrusion.
Dec 7, 2000 / The Editors
Wanted: Three Electors Wanted: Three Electors
Let the chattering classes focus on chads and undervotes and Florida recounts and what the courts--state and federal, all the way up to the Supreme Court--would or wouldn't do. L...
Dec 7, 2000 / The Editors
In Fact… In Fact…
PINOCHET NABBED Any last hope former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet may have harbored that history would judge him kindly was dashed recently when a Santiago judge formally ch...
Dec 7, 2000 / The Editors
Marital Color Line Marital Color Line
On November 7, voters in Alabama erased from that state's Constitution a provision dating from 1901 that declared that "the legislature shall never pass any law to authorize or l...
Dec 7, 2000 / Randall Kennedy
Middle East Divide Middle East Divide
Jerusalem One of the many casualties of the Palestinian intifada in the occupied territories, now entering its third month, is the alliance between the Palestinian nationa...
Dec 7, 2000 / Graham Usher