Politics

Beneath the Divide Beneath the Divide

The election results reveal what may be an "emerging progressive majority."

Nov 30, 2000 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage

Can Dems Hang Tough? Can Dems Hang Tough?

With No Decision 2000 a face-off of spins--moralistic outrage for the Republicans (don't steal our election) versus lofty principle for the Democrats (every vote should count)--t...

Nov 30, 2000 / David Corn

Rush to ‘Closure’ Rush to ‘Closure’

Here's the Bush idea of electoral reform: Cancel the election. The Florida legislature's move to choose the state's electors and declare George W. Bush the next President is only...

Nov 30, 2000 / The Editors

Talking With ‘Red Ken’ Talking With ‘Red Ken’

London's new mayor is Thatcher's old nemesis. Is he also a leading indicator?

Nov 30, 2000 / Feature / Maria Margaronis and D.D. Guttenplan

Yes, We’re the Great Pretenders Yes, We’re the Great Pretenders

Three days before the election, I took part in a television panel with former White House flack Joe Lockhart, who was doing his best to hold up his end of the tattered Gore-Lieberm...

Nov 30, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

In Fact… In Fact…

PALM BEACH STORY With challenges to vote counts flying furiously throughout Florida, we presume to advise an attorney for one group of complainants--those voters in Palm Beach Co...

Nov 30, 2000 / The Editors

Letters Letters

'THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY' New York City In his eminently fair review of my book The Holocaust Industry, Neve Gordon notes that "corners of the Jewish establishment" ...

Nov 30, 2000 / Norman G. Finkelstein, Christopher Cox, and Norm Dicks

Down for the Count Down for the Count

Was it only a few short weeks ago that I turned on the TV in my hotel room to hear conservative commentator Tucker Carlson explain to Don Imus that Gore would win the Floridian c...

Nov 30, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Vesuvius Vesuvius

Whoever wins the legal battles over the election, and with them the presidency, recent events will cast a long shadow over American political life in the years ahead. For the fir...

Nov 30, 2000 / Jonathan Schell

I’m Counting My Heart Out for You I’m Counting My Heart Out for You

(Lyrics found on a table inside a state building in Miami-Dade County) I'm counting my heart out for you. The votes I am finding are few. We hear the mob right in the h...

Nov 30, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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