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
Antiwar and Proud of It Antiwar and Proud of It
The throngs of Vietnamese who hailed Bill Clinton as "the antiwar President" demonstrated that they as a people remember something that we as a people have chosen to forget. It i...
Nov 27, 2000 / Editorial / H. Bruce Franklin
Antichoice Intimidation Antichoice Intimidation
While partisans debate whether a victorious George W. Bush would nominate Supreme Court Justices who would overturn Roe v.
Nov 27, 2000 / Editorial / Katha Pollitt
The American Conscience The American Conscience
This essay, from the December 12, 1969, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on...
Nov 22, 2000 / Editorial / The Editors
The Long Count The Long Count
When you read this, George W. Bush may be President, which will most likely mean that his lawyers, his brother Jeb and his Florida campaign co-chair and ambassadorial wannabe Kat...
Nov 16, 2000 / Editorial / The Editors