De-Foucaulding the GOP De-Foucaulding the GOP
De-Foucaulding the GOP New York City Win McCormack's sophisticated examination of conservative tactics in the last election was fascinating ["Deconstructing the...
May 25, 2001 / Win McCormack and Our Readers
The Jeffords Jump The Jeffords Jump
"What do we do now?" That famous last line of the 1972 film The Candidate, in which Robert Redford finds himself--to his surprise--elected to the Senate, should be on the minds of...
May 23, 2001 / David Corn
Those Big Town Blues Those Big Town Blues
New York City voters aren't thrilled with their options in the fall elections.
May 17, 2001 / Feature / Doug Ireland
Sub-Urban Planning Sub-Urban Planning
Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes--once the nation's largest public housing project--is currently being dismantled. Half of its buildings have already been torn down, and of those tha...
May 17, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Adele Oltman
Re-education on Henry Adams Re-education on Henry Adams
Henry Adams liked to say that his pedigree and eighteenth-century upbringing had hobbled him in the races of the twentieth century. The scion of not just one but two Presidents of...
May 17, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Michele Pridmore-Brown
‘The Sound of Surprise’ ‘The Sound of Surprise’
Bright and eager, bouncy and buoyant, sharp-eyed and quick-eared and passionately in love--those are a few of the ways you could describe Calle 54, director Fernando Trueba's trib...
May 17, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
The FBI in Peace and War The FBI in Peace and War
The FBI knows every way To put a case in disarray. For years they managed to mislay Some tapes a Birmingham DA Could use against the KKK. Because some files had gone astray ...
May 17, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
No Rush to Judges No Rush to Judges
President Bush's first list of nominees to the US Circuit Courts of Appeal, unveiled on May 8, was deceptively conciliatory and seeded with hard-to-oppose minorities and women, st...
May 17, 2001 / The Editors
Tax Cut Madness Tax Cut Madness
If all goes as the GOP has planned, George W. Bush will have on his desk by Memorial Day a $1.35 trillion tax bill that is wrongheaded and an utterly inequitable pander to the pri...
May 17, 2001 / The Editors
The First 2,920 Days The First 2,920 Days
I was driving my son to soccer practice not long ago, listening to a National Public Radio wrap-up of President Bush's first hundred days in office. My son, who was just a baby w...
May 17, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams