Political Figures

Starr’s Right-Hand Man Starr’s Right-Hand Man

As the impeachment trial was slouching toward completion, another issue began rising in prominence: Can Bill Clinton be indicted while he's President?

Feb 4, 1999 / David Corn

Justice Over-Decorated Is Justice Denied Justice Over-Decorated Is Justice Denied

Chief Justice Rehnquist now presides. He rules the chamber that decides If Clinton should remain or go. This role's important, that we know.

Jan 21, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Democrats Face the Future Democrats Face the Future

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating," Winston Churchill wrote in his memoir of the Boer War, "as to be shot at without result." Surely this accounts for the ebullience of Cong...

Jan 21, 1999 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage

One Lesson of the Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton One Lesson of the Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton

The middle names we have are, as a rule, Obscure, pretentious, odd or just not cool. So someone named John Bloomingblaise McGill

Jan 14, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The People vs. Larry Flynt? The People vs. Larry Flynt?

I didn't realize how much I was counting on Larry Flynt until I noticed I had spent Monday evening trying to find on the Web or TV a report of the much-anticipated news conf...

Jan 14, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Republic on Trial Republic on Trial

The most astonishing thing about the farcical and disgraceful--but extremely dangerous--impeachment proceedings in Washington is that they are happening at all. The country is at p...

Jan 14, 1999 / Jonathan Schell

McCain McCain

So now comes forward John McCain, A high-tech version of Gawain When with his steed, a Navy plane. He says he's forming his campaign

Jan 7, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Inaugurals Inaugurals

Twenty-six years ago, when the world was young, Jerry Brown began his reign in Sacramento and, even though I wrote some rude things about him at the time, life was certainly ...

Jan 7, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Republic on Trial Republic on Trial

The other day Linda Douglass, the Congressional correspondent for ABC News, commented to Peter Jennings that some "conservative" Republican senators were opposed to a plan th...

Jan 7, 1999 / Jonathan Schell

Historic Question Department, 11th-Grade Division Historic Question Department, 11th-Grade Division

In every century, it seems, The Constitution's put to test. Important questions must be asked, And ours is, "Did he touch her breast?"

Dec 24, 1998 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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