Godard and Company Godard and Company
It was the first Cannes Film Festival of the new century, but it felt more like an end than a beginning, as the past returned, in film after film, with weight and insistency. This...
May 31, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Leslie Camhi
The Left Taught Him How to Do It The Left Taught Him How to Do It
The leftists organizing in Vermont since the 1970s prepared the ground for James Jeffords's jump, and he never would have done it without them. In the 1970s and 1980s Democrats h...
May 31, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
‘Violence’ in Cincinnati ‘Violence’ in Cincinnati
The urban rebellion in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine neighborhood that followed the April 7 death of yet another black man, Timothy Thomas, at the hands of police shocked city resid...
May 31, 2001 / Thomas A. Dutton
Bringing Down the Senate Bringing Down the Senate
Vermont, as John Kenneth Galbraith once observed, is the only state in the union represented in Congress by a Democrat, a Republican and a Socialist, who all vote more or less ali...
May 31, 2001 / The Editors
In Fact… In Fact…
SMITING INTERNET SMUT The American Library Association and the ACLU are mounting a legal challenge to the Children's Internet Protection Act, which requires public libraries and ...
May 31, 2001 / The Editors
Lockerbie Families Speak Lockerbie Families Speak
Lockerbie Families Speak Cape May Courthouse, N.J. Alexander Cockburn should show respect for, and knowledge of, the facts. In his May 7 "Beat the Devil" column, "Ju...
May 31, 2001 / Alexander Cockburn, Daniel Cohen, Susan Cohen, and Helen Engelhardt
Shrub Flubs His Dub Shrub Flubs His Dub
Austin Oh, sure, blame it on Texas. It's all our fault Jim Jeffords walked. Many, many people in Washington are assuming "the Texans" in the White House are responsible ...
May 31, 2001 / Molly Ivins
Taking (Back) the Initiative Taking (Back) the Initiative
An activist think tank is fighting the right at the ballot box--and winning.
May 31, 2001 / Feature / David Sarasohn
Independents’ Day Independents’ Day
It's fitting that the first senator to become an independent in more than thirty years hails from Vermont, the state with the most advanced independent politics in the nation. Ver...
May 31, 2001 / Micah L. Sifry
On the Gradual End of the Estate Tax On the Gradual End of the Estate Tax
For years, estates of wealthy men were taxed-- The sort of thing that spoils a nice goodbye. The tax will disappear by 2010. And then the rich will find it safe to die.
May 31, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin