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The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund provided research assistance.

Sep 30, 1999 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss

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

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

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

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

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

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