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
No MO Democrats? No MO Democrats?
The plane crash that took the life of Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan on October 16 appears to have been a disaster for the Democrats, not only in the Show Me state but nationally...
Oct 26, 2000 / Feature / Doug Ireland
‘Supreme Coort Follows th’ Iliction’ ‘Supreme Coort Follows th’ Iliction’
'Supreme Coort Follows th' Iliction' Missoula, Mont. Thank you for your Supreme Court issue, "Up for Grabs: The Supreme Court and the Election" [Oct. 9], wh...
Oct 26, 2000 / Ralph Nader and Our Readers
Whose Side’s Jesus On? Whose Side’s Jesus On?
Gore says he prays when crises loom. He asks just what would Jesus do. And then he does that very thing (If focus groups would do it too). So whose side's Jesus on, fol...
Oct 26, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Save the Mall Save the Mall
On Veterans Day, November 11, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt will appear on the Mall at a spot between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial to break ground for the ...
Oct 26, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Middling Against the Ends Middling Against the Ends
This presidential race leaves an odd sensation among those of us not having a television. Like the much-cited Kennedy-Nixon race, in which the camera was generally thought to ha...
Oct 26, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
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
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
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