Cover of August 23, 1999 Issue

Editorial

Bradley’s Long Shot

How do you beat a sitting vice president in a presidential nomination contest? There's no established game plan, because no one's ever done it.

Pacifica Static

The temblors around Ground Zero Berkeley, otherwise known as station KPFA, seemed to be diminishing, but there were lingering aftershocks.

Presidential Bidding

Let 1999 go down in electoral history as the year the "wealth primary"--a term coined by Jamin Raskin and John Bonifaz in law review articles to describe the period of early f...

Column

Bush’s Death Watch

In rather the same way as new movies are now "reviewed" in terms of their first weekend gross, new candidates have become subject to evaluation by the dimensions of their "war...

Feature

Gloves Off in the Garden State

The newly regilded dome of Trenton's state capitol may be shimmering under the intense summer sun, but if New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman's entourage is sweating bu...

Think Globally, Run Locally

In the summer of 1997 Amory Houghton, the "moderate" six-term Republican Congressman who represents my home county in upstate New York, cast a crucial vote against the "no arm...

Books & the Arts

Renoir All Over Again

Like a kid at an ice-cream counter, urging his friends to try the chocolate--like a writer of travel guides, warning tourists not to miss the Eiffel Tower--I come before you t...

Back in the USSR

The study of the Soviet Union in the United States, as distinguished from random journalism, memoirs and polemics, began on the right foot.

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