Democrats Face the Future Democrats Face the Future
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating," Winston Churchill wrote in his memoir of the Boer War, "as to be shot at without result." Surely this accounts for the ebullience of Cong...
Jan 21, 1999 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage
One Lesson of the Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton One Lesson of the Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton
The middle names we have are, as a rule, Obscure, pretentious, odd or just not cool. So someone named John Bloomingblaise McGill
Jan 14, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The People vs. Larry Flynt? The People vs. Larry Flynt?
I didn't realize how much I was counting on Larry Flynt until I noticed I had spent Monday evening trying to find on the Web or TV a report of the much-anticipated news conf...
Jan 14, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Republic on Trial Republic on Trial
The most astonishing thing about the farcical and disgraceful--but extremely dangerous--impeachment proceedings in Washington is that they are happening at all. The country is at p...
Jan 14, 1999 / Editorial / Jonathan Schell
Republic on Trial Republic on Trial
The other day Linda Douglass, the Congressional correspondent for ABC News, commented to Peter Jennings that some "conservative" Republican senators were opposed to a plan th...
Jan 7, 1999 / Editorial / Jonathan Schell
Rehnquist’s Impeachment Gavel Rehnquist’s Impeachment Gavel
William Rehnquist was Richard Nixon's chief legal strategist when Nixon appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1971.
Dec 24, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Neuborne
Our Bloodless Coup Our Bloodless Coup
People warn that a Senate impeachment trial will effectively shut down the government, involving as it would the Supreme Court and tying up the World's Greatest Deliberative ...
Dec 24, 1998 / Editorial / Arthur Miller
Historic Question Department, 11th-Grade Division Historic Question Department, 11th-Grade Division
In every century, it seems, The Constitution's put to test. Important questions must be asked, And ours is, "Did he touch her breast?"
Dec 24, 1998 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Land of Dreams Land of Dreams
Anyone who decides to add his drop to the tidal wave of commentary on the impeachment of President Clinton must acknowledge, at the outset, a built-in difficulty.
Dec 24, 1998 / Editorial / Jonathan Schell
Noah’s Arc Noah’s Arc
Somewhat impudently for a man taken in adultery, Henry Hyde compares himself to Jesus Christ.
Dec 17, 1998 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn