Talking With ‘Red Ken’ Talking With ‘Red Ken’
London's new mayor is Thatcher's old nemesis. Is he also a leading indicator?
Nov 30, 2000 / Feature / Maria Margaronis and D.D. Guttenplan
Yes, We’re the Great Pretenders Yes, We’re the Great Pretenders
Three days before the election, I took part in a television panel with former White House flack Joe Lockhart, who was doing his best to hold up his end of the tattered Gore-Lieberm...
Nov 30, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
In Fact… In Fact…
PALM BEACH STORY With challenges to vote counts flying furiously throughout Florida, we presume to advise an attorney for one group of complainants--those voters in Palm Beach Co...
Nov 30, 2000 / The Editors
To Hell in His Handbasket To Hell in His Handbasket
Travel writing is a dismal art. From Herodotus, wide-eyed (and perhaps more than a little disoriented) in an India of man-eating ants and black sperm; to Ibn Batuta, the fourteen...
Nov 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Akash Kapur
Mumia and Free Speech Mumia and Free Speech
Could an American citizen be sentenced to jail simply for making a speech? If the speech is in defense of Pennsylvania death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal and the speaker is an acti...
Nov 30, 2000 / Dave Lindorff
Down for the Count Down for the Count
Was it only a few short weeks ago that I turned on the TV in my hotel room to hear conservative commentator Tucker Carlson explain to Don Imus that Gore would win the Floridian c...
Nov 30, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Vesuvius Vesuvius
Whoever wins the legal battles over the election, and with them the presidency, recent events will cast a long shadow over American political life in the years ahead. For the fir...
Nov 30, 2000 / Jonathan Schell
I’m Counting My Heart Out for You I’m Counting My Heart Out for You
(Lyrics found on a table inside a state building in Miami-Dade County) I'm counting my heart out for you. The votes I am finding are few. We hear the mob right in the h...
Nov 30, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Lennon’s Greatest Hits Lennon’s Greatest Hits
December 8, 2000: It was twenty years ago today that Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon outside the Dakota on West 72nd Street in New York City, bringing whatever was...
Nov 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Letters Letters
'THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY' New York City In his eminently fair review of my book The Holocaust Industry, Neve Gordon notes that "corners of the Jewish establishment" ...
Nov 30, 2000 / Norman G. Finkelstein, Christopher Cox, and Norm Dicks