Campaign Mystery Campaign Mystery
Conservatives cannot explain
Just why reporters boost McCain.
It seems an odd way to express
The liberal bias of the press.
Jan 6, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Answers Are… The Answers Are…
In our November 29 issue appeared "The Presidential Aptitude Test," a proposed snap quiz for candidates inspired by George W. Bush's flunking a test on the names of certain forei...
Jan 6, 2000 / The Editors
Brownout at School Brownout at School
The Color of School Reform represents the kind of scholarship that by rights should influence the design of smart policy.
Jan 6, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp
Greenspan and Gravity Greenspan and Gravity
The giddy adoration of Alan Greenspan has come to resemble the stock market bubble itself and, when one phenomenon comes to its end, so will the other.
Jan 6, 2000 / William Greider
A Far-Right Nominee Who’s All Wrong A Far-Right Nominee Who’s All Wrong
How ironic that Ashcroft's supporters now ask that he be treated with kid gloves during his own nomination hearings.
Jan 2, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
John McCain’s Vietnam John McCain’s Vietnam
Though he suffered as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, he seems blind to the suffering inflicted on that nation by America's brutal and misguided war.
Dec 15, 1999 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
On the Latest Republican Debate On the Latest Republican Debate
I watched these presidential hopefuls join
Together for debating in Des Moines,
And many times I heard allegiance sworn
To Jesus and to babies not quite born.
Dec 15, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Kosovo: On Ends and Means Kosovo: On Ends and Means
The spectacle of human beings acting out mindless violence through pack behavior instills more terror in the heart than perhaps any other event in the natural world.
Dec 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney
On the Release of John McCain’s Psychological Records On the Release of John McCain’s Psychological Records
Still reason to worry.
Dec 9, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin