Will Bulworth Run? Will Bulworth Run?
Run, Warren, run? The latest made-for-buzz wrinkle in the 2000 presidential campaign is that actor Warren Beatty is considering a rewrite that would put him into the action.
Aug 19, 1999 / The Editors
A Word of Sympathy for Candidates Who Did Not Do Well in the Ames Voting A Word of Sympathy for Candidates Who Did Not Do Well in the Ames Voting
It really would stick in the craw To find that you had to withdraw From such a big race For not keeping pace In a poll that was nothing but straw.
Aug 19, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Have We Reason to Believe? Have We Reason to Believe?
Scratch a philosopher, find a reductionist revolutionary.
Aug 5, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano
Bradley’s Long Shot Bradley’s Long Shot
How do you beat a sitting vice president in a presidential nomination contest? There's no established game plan, because no one's ever done it.
Aug 5, 1999 / David Corn
Pacifica Static Pacifica Static
The temblors around Ground Zero Berkeley, otherwise known as station KPFA, seemed to be diminishing, but there were lingering aftershocks.
Aug 5, 1999 / The Editors
Presidential Bidding Presidential Bidding
Let 1999 go down in electoral history as the year the "wealth primary"--a term coined by Jamin Raskin and John Bonifaz in law review articles to describe the period of early fund...
Aug 5, 1999 / The Editors
Bush’s Death Watch Bush’s Death Watch
In rather the same way as new movies are now "reviewed" in terms of their first weekend gross, new candidates have become subject to evaluation by the dimensions of their "war ch...
Aug 5, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Not for Me Not for Me
I think I'd rather not belong At this point to the Falun Gong. The exercises don't look easy, And doing them might make me queasy
Aug 5, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Gloves Off in the Garden State Gloves Off in the Garden State
The newly regilded dome of Trenton's state capitol may be shimmering under the intense summer sun, but if New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman's entourage is sweating bulle...
Aug 5, 1999 / Feature / Doug Ireland
Think Globally, Run Locally Think Globally, Run Locally
In the summer of 1997 Amory Houghton, the "moderate" six-term Republican Congressman who represents my home county in upstate New York, cast a crucial vote against the "no arms t...
Aug 5, 1999 / Feature / Caleb Rossiter