Florida Revisited Florida Revisited
With each new look at the November election in Florida, the argument of the Bush Five on the Supreme Court--that manual recounts would lead to the unequal treatment of voters--app...
Jun 7, 2001 / The Editors
White House Tax Windfall White House Tax Windfall
How much does the White House stand to save from Bush's tax cut?
Jun 7, 2001 / Feature / The Nation
Harvard’s ‘Fitting Choice’ Harvard’s ‘Fitting Choice’
On July 1 Larry Summers--the Wunderkind economist who ran the Treasury Department under President Clinton--takes over as president of Harvard University.
Jun 5, 2001 / Matt Bivens
Red Star Over Romania Red Star Over Romania
When, at 13, my rebellious move toward the left coincided with the emerging cold war, a teasing Bronx cousin took to calling me "Ana Pauker." Some boys in my school in the heart o...
May 31, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Susan Brownmiller
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
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
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