Campaigns and Elections

On the Possibility That Pat Buchanan Will Run as a Third-Party Candidate On the Possibility That Pat Buchanan Will Run as a Third-Party Candidate

Buchanan hints he's leaving. The GOP says, "Stay!" They fear that he'd be draining The wacko vote away.

Sep 9, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Rest of Them Are Clean The Rest of Them Are Clean

Elizabeth Dole won't break the law. McCain has scored no coke. The thought of Hatch with smack or crack Is palpably baroque.

Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Buchanan Breaks Ranks Buchanan Breaks Ranks

In Washington, a city in which (to borrow a phrase from Virginia Woolf) all is gossip, corruption and chatter, the end-of-summer buzz has been about Pat Buchanan and whether he'll ...

Sep 2, 1999 / Doug Ireland and Micah L. Sifry

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

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

Russia and Election 2000 Russia and Election 2000

President Boris Yeltsin's firing of his fifth Prime Minister in seventeen months and Russia's renewed war in the Caucasus are stark signs of his regime's instability, desperation...

Aug 19, 1999 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

George W.’s Straw Party George W.’s Straw Party

Texas Governor George W.

Aug 19, 1999 / Feature / Marc Cooper

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

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

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

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