Making Waves Making Waves
Thomas Jefferson was not anticipating a summer holiday when he told Lafayette that "the boisterous sea of liberty indeed is never without a wave." In Philadelphia, where Jefferson...
Jun 28, 2001 / The Editors
Friends at Court Friends at Court
The Supreme Court, in the final week of June, handed down three decisions, each of which seems to endorse a valuable social principle. In the first, involving the right...
Jun 28, 2001 / The Editors
Florida Revisited Florida Revisited
With each new look at the November election in Florida, the argument of the Bush Five on the Supreme Court--that manual recounts would lead to the unequal treatment of voters--app...
Jun 7, 2001 / The Editors
The Left Taught Him How to Do It The Left Taught Him How to Do It
The leftists organizing in Vermont since the 1970s prepared the ground for James Jeffords's jump, and he never would have done it without them. In the 1970s and 1980s Democrats h...
May 31, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Independents’ Day Independents’ Day
It's fitting that the first senator to become an independent in more than thirty years hails from Vermont, the state with the most advanced independent politics in the nation. Ver...
May 31, 2001 / Micah L. Sifry
Clean Elections at Stake Clean Elections at Stake
For government to represent the interests of average people, public officials have to be liberated from their dependence on private interests to finance their campaigns.
May 29, 2001 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry
Conservatism as Phoenix Conservatism as Phoenix
You want to find out why politics has become so dreary? You won't find the answer in Rick Perlstein's book. But what you will find is relief. I've read Before the Storm twice and ...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Robert Sherrill
Voters Rising Voters Rising
As John Lantigua recounts on page 11, the Florida election travesty looks even seamier in retrospect than it did at the time. Worse yet, as secretaries of state from across the co...
Apr 12, 2001 / The Editors
Black Politics in the Bush Era: Fallout From 2000 Will Continue Black Politics in the Bush Era: Fallout From 2000 Will Continue
Angry over the Florida debacle, African-Americans may retaliate in 2002.
Apr 12, 2001 / Feature / Ron Walters
How the GOP Gamed the System in Florida How the GOP Gamed the System in Florida
As thousands of blacks registered, the state threw many others off the rolls.
Apr 12, 2001 / Feature / John Lantigua