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Campaign FinanceMay 29, 2001
Clean Elections at Stake
For government to represent the interests of average people, public officials have to be liberated from their dependence on private interests to finance their campaigns.
Micah L. Sifry
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PoliticsOctober 19, 2000
A Working Third Party
Multiracial and populist, New York’s Working Families Party gains ground.
Micah L. Sifry
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Election 2000December 2, 1999
Public Citizen No.1
CORRECTION (from the Dec. 27 issue): In Micah L. Sifry’s “Public Citizen No. 1” [Dec. 20], Carl Mayer, although he is among those urging Nader to run, was incorrectly identified as a member of the Draft Nader Committee. Also, the town of Amherst is in Wisconsin, not Michigan.
A version of this article also appeared in Salon magazine.Micah L. Sifry
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Election 2000September 2, 1999
Buchanan Breaks Ranks
In Washington, a city in which (to borrow a phrase from Virginia Woolf) all is gossip, corruption and chatter, the end-of-summer buzz has been about Pat Buchanan and whether he’ll bolt the Republic
Doug Ireland and Micah L. Sifry
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Regions and CountriesMay 6, 1999
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PoliticsDecember 17, 1998
Jesse ‘The Gov’ Ventura
On January 4, 1999, Jesse Ventura will be sworn in as the new governor of Minnesota amid a media deluge not seen since the state hosted the Super Bowl.
Micah L. Sifry