Middlemarch Middlemarch
The GOP is an object of popular loathing, yet prospects seem dim for ousting it from power. Three new books explain why: Off Center explores the GOP's genius for subverting the mec...
Dec 15, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Eyal Press
Clinton Agonistes Clinton Agonistes
John Harris's history of the Clinton Administration deserves much of the praise it has received, but it ignores the media's anti-Clinton animus.
Jun 16, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Bill Clinton Joins the Campaign Bill Clinton Joins the Campaign
The party knows he has some faults, But what he has they need: That's schmaltz. And what he doesn't look is French. So Bubba's coming off the bench.
Oct 28, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Living to Tell the Tale Living to Tell the Tale
Former Presidents have a difficult, even awkward, role. They cope in different ways, but if the past half-century is any guide, we can be certain of one thing: They write their m...
Jul 15, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stanley I. Kutler
The Believer The Believer
A reader knowing nothing of the 1990s might well come away from Sidney Blumenthal's lengthy account of The Clinton Wars with the impression that for eight years, Bill and Hilla...
Jun 5, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Tom Wicker
Still Clinton’s Show? Still Clinton’s Show?
If the Democratic Party in exile is ever to find a new voice and sense of purpose, it will first have to get around a peculiar obstacle left behind by the Clinton era: The man ...
Jan 30, 2003 / Feature / William Greider
Subverting the UN Subverting the UN
As a healthy response to the Bush Administration's war policies, the number of people taking to the streets in protest is increasing with each step toward war.
Oct 17, 2002 / Richard Falk and David Krieger
Knowledge (and Power) Knowledge (and Power)
For Senator Clinton to flourish a copy of the New York Post--the paper that has called her pretty much everything from Satanic to Sapphist--merely because it had the pungent headli...
May 23, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Chelsea in Oxford Chelsea in Oxford
Chelsea Clinton bristles at the antiwar movement while she attends Oxford.
Dec 4, 2001 / Feature / Daniel Swift
The Pardoner’s Tale The Pardoner’s Tale
During his closing weeks in office, Bill Clinton refused a plea, signed by many leading lawyers and civil libertarians, that he declare a moratorium on capital punishment. The mora...
Mar 1, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens