Political Figures

Why Dubya Can’t Read Why Dubya Can’t Read

The poor guy is obviously dyslexic, and dyslexic to the point of near-illiteracy.

Sep 24, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Hitchens

Presidential Politics, Cont’d., Cont’d. Presidential Politics, Cont’d., Cont’d.

I still think third-party politics is mostly a crock, but then, so is two-party politics.

Sep 24, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt

A Scientific Observation (Using Some Experts Gail Sheehy Didn’t Know About) on the Speaking Problems That Seem to Run in the Bush Family A Scientific Observation (Using Some Experts Gail Sheehy Didn’t Know About) on the Speaking Problems That Seem to Run in the Bush Family

He thinks that hostile's hostage. He cannot say subliminal. The way Bush treats the language Is bordering on criminal. His daddy had the problem: He used the nounless predicate. Those cowboy boots can do that To people from Connecticut.

Sep 24, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Latest Gore The Latest Gore

Talk about surprise Hollywood endings.

Aug 24, 2000 / David Corn

Stem the Tide of Research? Fuhgeddaboutit Stem the Tide of Research? Fuhgeddaboutit

President Bush was not deterred by lack of expertise when it came to deciding a highly specialized scientific issue.

Aug 14, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Vote for Gore Vote for Gore

Ralph Nader, America's indomitable public citizen, is the one great man in this presidential election.

Aug 10, 2000 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage

Vote for Nader Vote for Nader

It must be some playful new postmodernist form of politics: First you spend years ranting about the plutocracy that has supplanted American democracy and is rapidly devouring t...

Aug 10, 2000 / Feature / Barbara Ehrenreich

Goodbye Keynes, Hello Coolidge Goodbye Keynes, Hello Coolidge

Paying off the national debt used to be an obsession of Calvinist fundamentalists on the fringes of the Republican Party, but this year it is the boldest banner held aloft by t...

Aug 10, 2000 / Feature / William Greider

Gore’s Surrender Gore’s Surrender

Less than a hour after George Bush concluded his party's have-a-nice-election convention with a vapid but beyond-the-expectations acceptance speech, a source deep within the Go...

Aug 10, 2000 / David Corn

Tricky Dick Tricky Dick

When Dubya picked Dick Cheney as his running mate, the little screen was awash in flatulent flatteries from the chattering classes: "a grown-up," "presidential," "all steak and...

Aug 10, 2000 / Doug Ireland

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