If Politics Got Real… If Politics Got Real…
If politics got real...the debate over costly prescription drugs would turn to more fundamental solutions like breaking up the pharmaceutical industry's patent monopolies, which ...
Oct 26, 2000 / William Greider
Impeachment: Whose Stain? Impeachment: Whose Stain?
Impeachment trials have notably lacked drama or even importance. Often, they have been an anticlimax to the convulsive events that precipitated them. Andrew Johnson's trial exten...
Oct 26, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stanley I. Kutler
Not One Vote! Not One Vote!
Bernie Sanders is right. Ralph Nader is "one of the heroes of contemporary American society." How sad, therefore, that he is helping to undo so much of his life's work in a misg...
Oct 26, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
Bush–Rush to Judgment Bush–Rush to Judgment
"The death penalty's very serious business, Leo," Governor Bush condescendingly told a questioner in the third presidential debate. "There've been some tough cases come across my...
Oct 26, 2000 / Doug Magee
The Day After The Day After
In Chicago, in mid-October, I did a radio show with the Bill Buckley-ish Milt Rosenberg of WGN, a big station. Rosenberg said that because of the fairness doctrine our discussio...
Oct 26, 2000 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
NO MIRTH IN THE BALANCE "Al Gore distills in his single person the disrepair of liberalism in America today, and almost every unalluring feature of the Democratic Party. He did ...
Oct 26, 2000 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Down to the Wire Down to the Wire
Show-off argumentation or dime-store vision? It's too close to call.
Oct 26, 2000 / Feature / David Corn
A Texas ‘Advocate for Justice’ A Texas ‘Advocate for Justice’
The judge who chided Bush over aid to children is part of a state tradition.
Oct 26, 2000 / Feature / Lou Dubose
Taking the Initiatives Taking the Initiatives
In Michigan, it's a battle over school vouchers. In Alaska the fight is over medical marijuana. Nebraskans are being asked to outlaw civil unions. In Colorado, Amendment 25 would...
Oct 26, 2000 / The Editors
In Fact… In Fact…
LIES AND DAMN LIES What's a political campaign without politicians calling each other liars? This one's been marked, however, at the presidential level, by strategic civility, a ...
Oct 26, 2000 / The Editors