The Best of All Possible Worlds The Best of All Possible Worlds
So it all came out right in the end: gridlock on the Hill and Nader blamed for sabotaging Al Gore. First a word about gridlock. We like it. No bold initiatives, like priva...
Nov 10, 2000 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Greens: Out of the Money Greens: Out of the Money
The razor-thin margin that defined the presidential race is sure to stir controversy around the Ralph Nader vote. Those wishing to blame Nader for Gore's troubles and those Green...
Nov 10, 2000 / Marc Cooper
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
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
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
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
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
Death Watch Death Watch
When the history of this year's presidential campaign is written, the addiction of both Bush and Gore to the obsolete politics of capital punishment will rank high in the annals ...
Nov 2, 2000 / The Editors