Articles

Trick or Treat Trick or Treat

The voters hear on Halloween The country's doorbell ring. There's Bush dressed up as real adult And Gore as human being.

Oct 19, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Europe: Is There a Fourth Way? Europe: Is There a Fourth Way?

If Western Europe is to be independent it must defend its welfare state.

Oct 19, 2000 / Feature / Daniel Singer

A Working Third Party A Working Third Party

Multiracial and populist, New York's Working Families Party gains ground.

Oct 19, 2000 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry

What Do They Want? What Do They Want?

I keep reading that the election turns on women's votes. Yet apart from the issue of abortion, women seem curiously invisible this election season--except of course for the endle...

Oct 19, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Unhealthy Politics Unhealthy Politics

The number-one healthcare issue facing the country is not which prescription drug plan is best for seniors or whether a handful of patients will be able to sue their HMOs. It is ...

Oct 19, 2000 / Trudy Lieberman

The Kiss The Kiss

You may find reading Akhil Sharma's debut novel akin to having your head held underwater. Attendant with feelings of a relentless, choking panic, though, will be an almost preter...

Oct 19, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar

Amos, Andy ‘n’ You Amos, Andy ‘n’ You

Since Spike Lee begins his new picture, Bamboozled, by giving a dictionary definition of satire, the least a reviewer can do is to open with a proper critical definition. Strictl...

Oct 19, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

In Fact… In Fact…

NADER PEOPLE If Ralph Nader can make it here in old New York--as he did at his October 13 Madison Square Garden rally, which pulled a full house of 15,000 paying supporters--he c...

Oct 19, 2000 / The Editors

Democratic Centralism Democratic Centralism

"When the ax came into the woods, the trees all said, 'Well, at least the handle is one of us.'" There is more intellectual content in this old Turkish folk warning than ...

Oct 19, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

The Election and Beyond The Election and Beyond

We dare to be optimistic. Presidential elections are mile markers on a very long road. Our side does not expect to win according to conventional measures; it could hardly be othe...

Oct 19, 2000 / The Editors

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