Making Every Vote Count Making Every Vote Count
What we need are election rules that encourage voter turnout rather than suppress it.
Nov 16, 2000 / Lani Guinier
What Crisis? What Crisis?
There's an easy way to take your own pulse, and that of anyone you know, concerning the vertiginous events of the night of November 7. Was the apparent non-outcome really a "...
Nov 16, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Deregulate the Duopoly Deregulate the Duopoly
As rain dances used to serve certain primitive tribes and scripture still serves true believers, the two-party system serves as the religion of the political class. Never mind th...
Nov 16, 2000 / Theodore J. Lowi
The Butterfly Election The Butterfly Election
On Tuesday, November 14, exactly one week after Election Day (and with no President yet in sight), a notable though little-noted disclosure was made to the public. I do not mean ...
Nov 16, 2000 / Jonathan Schell
A Day in the Life of the Palm Beach County Recount A Day in the Life of the Palm Beach County Recount
While Bush says counting votes by hand's unfair, Gore gains--a bubbe here, a zayde there.
Nov 16, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Relax, Enjoy the Ride; Democracy Is Doing OK Relax, Enjoy the Ride; Democracy Is Doing OK
When George W. Bush spokesman James A. Baker III termed the fight over the Florida vote recount "a black mark on our democracy," he couldn't have been more wrong. At the time h...
Nov 14, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Indecision 2000 Indecision 2000
What if they held a presidential election and neither guy won? Or a dead man from Missouri defeated an incumbent Republican senator?
Nov 10, 2000 / The Editors
Measures That Mattered Measures That Mattered
As the media obsessed over the seesaw presidential poll, voters across the country quietly made their choices on more than 200 disparate ballot measures and initiatives. For prog...
Nov 10, 2000 / Marc Cooper
Where’s the Mandate? Where’s the Mandate?
It wasn't exactly a reversal of 1994, but in this year's Senate races Democrats erased much of the Republican majority that was established in that year of Grand Old Party hegemo...
Nov 10, 2000 / John Nichols
Greens: Out of the Money Greens: Out of the Money
The razor-thin margin that defined the presidential race is sure to stir controversy around the Ralph Nader vote. Those wishing to blame Nader for Gore's troubles and those Green...
Nov 10, 2000 / Marc Cooper