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
Hey Guys, Be Careful What You Wish For Hey Guys, Be Careful What You Wish For
Why are white men so screwed up? If you can believe the polls, they identify by a huge margin with George W. Bush as one of them. What gives with these delusions of grandeur in...
Oct 10, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Former Yugoslavia The Former Yugoslavia
During the Kosovo crisis of last year, it was commonplace if not routine to hear two mantras being intoned by those who had decided that "never" would be about the right ...
Oct 5, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens