Left in Shambles Left in Shambles
Providence put me on a panel debating the Gore/Nader choice with Cornel West at New York University in late October. Most of the audience was for Nader, and the lineup on stage d...
Nov 10, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Best of All Possible Worlds The Best of All Possible Worlds
So it all came out right in the end: gridlock on the Hill and Nader blamed for sabotaging Al Gore. First a word about gridlock. We like it. No bold initiatives, like priva...
Nov 10, 2000 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Now Set the Teeth… Now Set the Teeth…
Afew days before the election, I accompanied a friend to the dentist's office. It was one of those situations in which appearance takes over more complex realities of who we are....
Nov 10, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Greens: Out of the Money Greens: Out of the Money
The razor-thin margin that defined the presidential race is sure to stir controversy around the Ralph Nader vote. Those wishing to blame Nader for Gore's troubles and those Green...
Nov 10, 2000 / Marc Cooper
Measures That Mattered Measures That Mattered
As the media obsessed over the seesaw presidential poll, voters across the country quietly made their choices on more than 200 disparate ballot measures and initiatives. For prog...
Nov 10, 2000 / Marc Cooper
Indian Country, NY Indian Country, NY
A land-claim suit is pitting Oneidas against other upstate residents.
Nov 10, 2000 / Feature / Beverly Gage
Where’s the Mandate? Where’s the Mandate?
It wasn't exactly a reversal of 1994, but in this year's Senate races Democrats erased much of the Republican majority that was established in that year of Grand Old Party hegemo...
Nov 10, 2000 / John Nichols
Indecision 2000 Indecision 2000
What if they held a presidential election and neither guy won? Or a dead man from Missouri defeated an incumbent Republican senator?
Nov 10, 2000 / The Editors
The ‘Stealth Campaign’ The ‘Stealth Campaign’
This issue goes to press on Wednesday, November 8, the day after the election, when all was supposed to have been decided, all was to be made clear. Instead, a great bewilderment...
Nov 10, 2000 / Jonathan Schell
Nader Betrayed Those He Promised to Help Nader Betrayed Those He Promised to Help
The lesson of election 2000, no matter the final photo-finish outcome, is that, for better or worse, the Democratic Party is the only political home for those with a progressiv...
Nov 9, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer