Our Virtual Primaries Our Virtual Primaries
As the first voting of the 2000 presidential election approaches, in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primaries, public disinterest is palpable.
Jan 20, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Schell
Beelzebub’s Buzzwords Beelzebub’s Buzzwords
These excerpts are from Jim Hightower's If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates (HarperCollins).
Jan 20, 2000 / Feature / Jim Hightower
A Man of Straw A Man of Straw
In principle, I rather detest articles or items that begin or end with the words, "You heard it here first." Nonetheless, this is what I told the readers of this column on Decemb...
Jan 20, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
The Woman Who Would Be Senator The Woman Who Would Be Senator
As you may have heard once or twice, we have a little Senate race going here in New York.
Jan 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Michael Tomasky
‘The First Environmentalists’ ‘The First Environmentalists’
For thirty years, since the publication of Silent Spring and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the growth of the environmental movement has been fueled with sorrow for the decimatio...
Jan 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Mindy Pennybacker
Ungood Fellas Ungood Fellas
The last decade of the twentieth century was not a happy one for the Mafia.
Jan 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / George De Stefano
Rain Man Rain Man
In his novel A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone invents this old American saying: "Mickey Mouse will see you dead." I have spent many profitable hours mulling over that coinage; an...
Jan 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Last Job Ashcroft Should Be Given Is AG The Last Job Ashcroft Should Be Given Is AG
That John Ashcroft is a right-wing, pro-gun religious fanatic who laments the civil rights gains of the past decades and believes that leaders of the pro-slavery Southern Confede...
Jan 16, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
AOL’s Big Byte AOL’s Big Byte
Only a few days before the announcement of the AOL-Time Warner merger, Time Warner chief executive Gerald Levin took part in a CNN discussion on the future of the media.
Jan 13, 2000 / The Editors
The Beat The Beat
New Year, New Party Vermont voters have elected Independent Bernie Sanders to five terms in the US House, sent four independent progressives to their state legislature an
Jan 13, 2000 / John Nichols