If Politics Got Real…
If politics got real, the debate on campaign finance reform would focus on how ordinary citizens can acquire a measure of power in America's money-drenched democracy.
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February 7, 2000 Issue
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Editorial
Why I Support Bradley
As I travel across the country, I am often asked why progressives should support Bill Bradley for President, as I do.
The ‘Cuba Exception’
The law governing the case of Elián González, the 6-year-old Cuban boy found clinging to an inner tube after his mother drowned on the way here from Cuba, could ...
Column
A Man of Straw
In principle, I rather detest articles or items that begin or end with the words, "You heard it here first." Nonetheless, this is what I told the readers of this column on Dec...
Feature
Our Virtual Primaries
As the first voting of the 2000 presidential election approaches, in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primaries, public disinterest is palpable.
Books & the Arts
Rain Man
In his novel A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone invents this old American saying: "Mickey Mouse will see you dead." I have spent many profitable hours mulling over that c...
Ungood Fellas
The last decade of the twentieth century was not a happy one for the Mafia.
‘The First Environmentalists’
For thirty years, since the publication of Silent Spring and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the growth of the environmental movement has been fueled with sorrow ...
The Woman Who Would Be Senator
As you may have heard once or twice, we have a little Senate race going here in New York.
