Editorial

The Nation Indicators The Nation Indicators

We're sorry, but Doug Henwood's enlightening charts and graphs can be seen only in our print edition, as it is not technically feasible at this time to post them on our website.  

Dec 22, 2000 / Doug Henwood

In Fact… In Fact…

PROGRESSIVES FRISK IN FRISCO Tom Gallagher writes: They don't make routs much bigger than the one San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and allies experienced on December 12. After the runoffs of the city's first district Board of Supervisors elections since the days of Harvey Milk and Dan White, Brown-backed candidates had lost nine of eleven seats to an insurgency built to a considerable extent on Tom Ammiano's remarkable 1999 write-in mayoral campaign and fueled by the widespread perception of a city for sale. While deputy public defender Matt Gonzalez increased his 44-to-28 percent preliminary edge to 66-to-34--despite switching from Democrat to Green in the interim--none of Brown's runoff candidates reached even 52 percent (one drew only 19 percent) despite an overwhelming soft-money advantage.   DEATH ROW SURVIVORS Scattered through the text of Robert Sherrill's article in this issue are photographs of eight former Illinois death-row prisoners taken by Loren Santow, a Chicago-based, widely published freelance photographer. The photos of men wrongly condemned to death were taken for a poster conceived by Rob Warden, a writer and activist, to publicize the errors endemic to the system. Before the present moratorium and since the restoration of capital punishment in Illinois, twelve prisoners have been executed, and thirteen freed because of innocence or lack of evidence. See Death Row Roll Call on the Nation website (www.thenation.com/deathrow) for a list of inmates awaiting execution and links to register a protest.   NATION NOTES We congratulate the following friends who were awarded the National Humanities Medal: Toni Morrison, editorial board member; Barbara Kingsolver, Nation cruise panelist; and Earl Shorris, contributor and founder of classics courses for the poor. And National Medal of the Arts winner Benny Carter, reader.

Dec 22, 2000 / The Editors

Return of Legal Realism Return of Legal Realism

Bush v. Gore may have superficially resolved a short-run political crisis, but it has triggered a deep intellectual crisis.

Dec 22, 2000 / Sanford Levinson

Democratic Vistas Democratic Vistas

We shall see very little of the charmingly simian George W. Bush—the military—Cheney, Powell et al.--will be calling the tune, and the whole nation will be on constant ...

Dec 22, 2000 / Gore Vidal

Prince Al Prince Al

Al Gore will be playing a special political role in the future.

Dec 15, 2000 / David Corn

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

In Fact… In Fact…

Dec 14, 2000 / The Editors

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

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