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 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Rare Good News Rare Good News
The Journal of Nutrition wrote about Some researchers who tested chocolate out. It may help stave off heart attacks, they claim. Red wine, we've known for years, can do the sa...
Nov 10, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Now Set the Teeth… Now Set the Teeth…
Afew days before the election, I accompanied a friend to the dentist's office. It was one of those situations in which appearance takes over more complex realities of who we are....
Nov 10, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
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
Gates Sends a Message: A Wired World Gates Sends a Message: A Wired World
Bill Gates for President--next time. Now that we've gotten used to millionaires running for the presidency, why not a billionaire and a self-made one at that? At least Gates is...
Nov 7, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
For Whom the Gong Tolls For Whom the Gong Tolls
If you stand in Tiananmen Square and keep your eyes open on a normal day, you will see the tour groups with their "keep together" flags, and the long line waiting to see ...
Nov 2, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Don’t Blame Ralph Don’t Blame Ralph
If Gore loses the White House--and some of you reading this will know whether or not he did--he'll have no one but himself to blame. Readers of this page know I've been something...
Nov 2, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Nader Voters: An Explanation Nader Voters: An Explanation
They thought they'd vote the Democratic slate, But somehow felt they needed something more. They finally found a candidate who was More sanctimonious than Albert Gore.
Nov 2, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Al, You Should Try Taking Credit Where Credit’s Due Al, You Should Try Taking Credit Where Credit’s Due
I want to vote for Bill Clinton for President again, but that not being possible I had resigned myself to Al Gore. Surely, I thought, he would defend the Clinton Administration...
Oct 30, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Day After The Day After
In Chicago, in mid-October, I did a radio show with the Bill Buckley-ish Milt Rosenberg of WGN, a big station. Rosenberg said that because of the fairness doctrine our discussio...
Oct 26, 2000 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn