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Listen Up, Naderites: You’re Playing a Dangerous Game Listen Up, Naderites: You’re Playing a Dangerous Game

Ralph Nader's Green Party campaign for the presidency has evolved into a dangerous game. On one hand, the candidate insists it doesn't matter if George W. Bush beats Al Gore. Y...

Oct 26, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Beware of Bush; He’s Not What He Seems Beware of Bush; He’s Not What He Seems

What a deal! Elect George W. Bush President and you get government lite--eat all you want without gaining a pound. Bush promises to cut taxes for all, dramatically increase mil...

Oct 24, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Democratic Centralism Democratic Centralism

"When the ax came into the woods, the trees all said, 'Well, at least the handle is one of us.'" There is more intellectual content in this old Turkish folk warning than ...

Oct 19, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

What Do They Want? What Do They Want?

I keep reading that the election turns on women's votes. Yet apart from the issue of abortion, women seem curiously invisible this election season--except of course for the endle...

Oct 19, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Trick or Treat Trick or Treat

The voters hear on Halloween The country's doorbell ring. There's Bush dressed up as real adult And Gore as human being.

Oct 19, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Blaming Arik Last Blaming Arik Last

Marvin Kalb, executive director of the Washington office of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, diagnoses an anti-Israel tilt in the US media,...

Oct 12, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman

‘Vote Your Hopes, Not Your Fears’ ‘Vote Your Hopes, Not Your Fears’

Take this as a national parable. Once upon a time--in the early eighties, actually--there was a progressive coalition in Vermont designed to become a third force in politics. One...

Oct 12, 2000 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn

The Nation Dozen The Nation Dozen

THE NOVEMBER 7 ELECTION is not merely about ending six years of GOP dominance but also about assuring that the next Congress is pulled in a more enlightened direction. Starting e...

Oct 12, 2000 / Column / John Nichols

On the Events in Serbia On the Events in Serbia

It took them thirteen years to ditch Old Slobodan Milosevic. Now people see a new day dawn, But notice that he's still not gone.

Oct 12, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Getting Out the Vote Getting Out the Vote

I'm surprised at how many otherwise thoughtful people seem convinced that this election "makes no difference." In my very first Nation column, I quoted Justice Antonin Scalia, wh...

Oct 12, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

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