Vote for Gore Vote for Gore
Ralph Nader, America's indomitable public citizen, is the one great man in this presidential election.
Aug 10, 2000 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage
Vote for Nader Vote for Nader
It must be some playful new postmodernist form of politics: First you spend years ranting about the plutocracy that has supplanted American democracy and is rapidly devouring t...
Aug 10, 2000 / Feature / Barbara Ehrenreich
Goodbye Keynes, Hello Coolidge Goodbye Keynes, Hello Coolidge
Paying off the national debt used to be an obsession of Calvinist fundamentalists on the fringes of the Republican Party, but this year it is the boldest banner held aloft by t...
Aug 10, 2000 / Feature / William Greider
The Other America The Other America
On the eve of the Democratic convention, the challenge to Democrats is to recognize the limits of the current economic boom and act boldly to assist those left behind.
Aug 10, 2000 / Feature / Jan Schakowsky
Planks for a People’s Platform Planks for a People’s Platform
The draft Democratic Party platform doesn't speak forcefully to the concerns of ordinary people.
Aug 10, 2000 / Feature / Various Contributors
Hard Right Burning for Bush? Hard Right Burning for Bush?
Perhaps it was because he was recovering from painful back surgery, but a few weeks before the Republican convention, Paul Weyrich, a founder of the religious right, was awful gr...
Jul 27, 2000 / Feature / David Corn
Bush’s Touchy-Feely Economics Bush’s Touchy-Feely Economics
The economics of George W.
Jul 27, 2000 / Feature / William Greider
Paying to Party Paying to Party
It's no secret that the national conventions are no longer dramatic arenas in which the parties decide their presidential nominees or, for that matter, anything else of much impo...
Jul 27, 2000 / Feature / David Enrich
In the Eighth Circle of Thieves In the Eighth Circle of Thieves
The power and sovereignty of corporations is an enormous humiliation to a society of free people.
Jul 27, 2000 / Feature / E.L. Doctorow
Where’s Hoffa Driving the Teamsters? Where’s Hoffa Driving the Teamsters?
There was a time when the very word "Teamsters" evoked some pretty dark images: a bloated and notoriously corrupt union president, carried into the Teamsters convention on a gild...
Jul 13, 2000 / Feature / Marc Cooper