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Nader Voters: An Explanation Nader Voters: An Explanation

They thought they'd vote the Democratic slate, But somehow felt they needed something more. They finally found a candidate who was More sanctimonious than Albert Gore.

Nov 2, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

America and the World: The End of Easy Dominance America and the World: The End of Easy Dominance

In the more trying period ahead, a modest internationalism would fare best.

Nov 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Sherle R. Schwenninger

A man walks past a giant plaster cast on display with other artifacts at the Peabody Museum.

Anthropologists as Spies Anthropologists as Spies

Collaboration occurred in the past, and there’s no professional bar to it today.

Nov 2, 2000 / Feature / David Price

Don’t Blame Ralph Don’t Blame Ralph

If Gore loses the White House--and some of you reading this will know whether or not he did--he'll have no one but himself to blame. Readers of this page know I've been something...

Nov 2, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt

A Postcard From Arad A Postcard From Arad

Arad, where I live, is a small, out-of-the-way town in the Negev desert, in southern Israel. There are Jews and Arabs living here, but so far it has been surprisingly quiet. Not ...

Nov 2, 2000 / Amos Oz

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

BEYOND WESTPHALIA One of the most remarkable--but unremarked, other than superficially--aspects of globalism is its erosional effect on the role of the state as we've known it s...

Nov 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

Green Bee Green Bee

It was curled on the pavement, forehead to knees, as if it had died while bowing. Its stripes were citrine-yellow, and the black of a moonless starless, clea...

Nov 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Sharon Olds

Nader: Fast in the Stretch Nader: Fast in the Stretch

Ralph really ran. Against the record of his own faux campaign of 1996, against the expectations even of friends who said he lacked the candidate gene and against the calculations...

Nov 2, 2000 / John Nichols

Borderline Justice Borderline Justice

In their 1996 book The Next War, former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Peter Schweitzer concoct some troubling scenarios they imagine could confront the United States...

Nov 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Joseph Nevins

Branding Kids for Life Branding Kids for Life

If you are the parent of a newborn, beware. Fourteen to eighteen months from now your child will be programmed to nag for a new toy or snack every four hours, "branded for life" ...

Nov 2, 2000 / Steven Manning

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