Debaters’ Points Debaters’ Points
Little ventured, little gained--the first Gore-Bush debate featured both candidates at their usual. No breakouts, no bold thrusts. The face-off reflected the narrow parameters ...
Oct 5, 2000 / David Corn
Pill of Choice Pill of Choice
It took twelve years for the FDA to approve mifepristone--also known as RU-486--and most of that time had less to do with medicine than with the politics of abortion. Still, th...
Oct 5, 2000 / The Editors
Influence Peddling, Bush Style Influence Peddling, Bush Style
Democrats weren't the only ones who benefited from knowing wealthy Asians.
Oct 5, 2000 / Feature / David Corn and Dan Moldea
Letters Letters
'THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY' New York City Christopher Hitchens is correct to point out that Norman Finkelstein's book The Holocaust Industry has enjoyed a gre...
Oct 5, 2000 / Burt Neuborne, Gabriel Schoenfeld, Wayne Owens, and Nora Cusack
No Defense No Defense
How the New York Times convicted Wen Ho Lee.
Oct 5, 2000 / Feature / Robert Scheer
Mary Cheney Just Might Teach the Right a Lesson Mary Cheney Just Might Teach the Right a Lesson
Let's give up some applause for Dick Cheney for affirming in deed, if not words, that homosexuality is perfectly consistent with traditional family values. The decision for a Rep...
Oct 3, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
If Politics Got Real… If Politics Got Real…
To Nader or not to Nader, that is the question. A debate over whether Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader is a savior or a spoiler has raged for months among progressi...
Sep 28, 2000 / Rob Richie and Steven Hill
Policing Pregnancy Policing Pregnancy
The Supreme Court opens its new term with a case that raises the stakes dramatically in the politics of fetal rights. At issue in Ferguson v. City of Charleston is whether a publ...
Sep 28, 2000 / Rachel Roth
‘Controlling Authority’ ‘Controlling Authority’
In campaign speeches George W. Bush repeats Al Gore's defense of his 1996 campaign fundraising phone calls from his government office--"there is no controlling legal authority"--...
Sep 28, 2000 / Robert L. Weinberg
Stop, Thief! Stop, Thief!
Neoconservatives are serial grave-robbers. Back in the early eighties, Norman Podhoretz tried to claim both Ronald Reagan and George Orwell as part of his meshuggeneh mishpocheh....
Sep 28, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman