Politics

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

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

Malthusian Delusions? Malthusian Delusions?

Malthusian Delusions? Franklin, N.Y. Amartya Sen starts his otherwise sensible "Population and Gender Equity" [July 24/31] with the unproven assertion that Thomas Malth...

Nov 10, 2000 / Our Readers

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

Official Secrets Law Official Secrets Law

At the close of its session, Congress considered two bills addressing classified information. One had been pending for more than a year, had more than a hundred co-sponsors, was ...

Nov 2, 2000 / David Cole

Don’t Blame Ralph Don’t Blame Ralph

If Gore loses the White House--and some of you reading this will know whether or not he did--he'll have no one but himself to blame. Readers of this page know I've been something...

Nov 2, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt

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