Rush to ‘Closure’ Rush to ‘Closure’
Here's the Bush idea of electoral reform: Cancel the election. The Florida legislature's move to choose the state's electors and declare George W. Bush the next President is only...
Nov 30, 2000 / Editorial / The Editors
In Fact… In Fact…
PALM BEACH STORY With challenges to vote counts flying furiously throughout Florida, we presume to advise an attorney for one group of complainants--those voters in Palm Beach Co...
Nov 30, 2000 / Editorial / The Editors
Mumia and Free Speech Mumia and Free Speech
Could an American citizen be sentenced to jail simply for making a speech? If the speech is in defense of Pennsylvania death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal and the speaker is an acti...
Nov 30, 2000 / Editorial / Dave Lindorff
Vesuvius Vesuvius
Whoever wins the legal battles over the election, and with them the presidency, recent events will cast a long shadow over American political life in the years ahead. For the fir...
Nov 30, 2000 / Editorial / Jonathan Schell
Lennon’s Greatest Hits Lennon’s Greatest Hits
December 8, 2000: It was twenty years ago today that Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon outside the Dakota on West 72nd Street in New York City, bringing whatever was...
Nov 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
The Real Bush Stands Up The Real Bush Stands Up
It took George W. Bush a matter of days--if not hours--to prove that he doesn't believe his own different-kind-of-Republican rhetoric and that he is leading a squad as loaded wit...
Nov 27, 2000 / Editorial / The Editors
In Fact… In Fact…
THE BUCHANAN FACTOR John Cavanagh of the Institute for Policy Studies posits that Pat Buchanan undermined Bush's election hopes more than Ralph Nader did Gore's. Although Buchan...
Nov 27, 2000 / Editorial / The Editors
Fractured Franchise Fractured Franchise
There's been a lot of talk in recent days about "disfranchisement." Jesse Jackson has invoked memories of the bloody battles for voter registration in Selma; elderly Jews in Palm...
Nov 27, 2000 / Editorial / Alex Keyssar
Accountability on Chile Accountability on Chile
"Actions approved by the U.S. government aggravated political polarization and affected Chile's long tradition of democratic elections and respect for constitutional order and th...
Nov 27, 2000 / Editorial / Peter Kornbluh
Manufacturing a Crisis Manufacturing a Crisis
The postelection battle for the presidency is without doubt some kind of crisis, but it's not easy to define precisely what kind. David Broder has suggested in the Washington Pos...
Nov 27, 2000 / Editorial / Jonathan Schell