A Working Third Party A Working Third Party
Multiracial and populist, New York's Working Families Party gains ground.
Oct 19, 2000 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry
Europe: Is There a Fourth Way? Europe: Is There a Fourth Way?
If Western Europe is to be independent it must defend its welfare state.
Oct 19, 2000 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Trick or Treat Trick or Treat
The voters hear on Halloween
The country's doorbell ring.
There's Bush dressed up as real adult
And Gore as human being.
Oct 19, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Another ‘October Surprise’ Another ‘October Surprise’
Poor Anthony Summers--he writes a 600-page book on Nixon based on massive and exhaustive research, including interviews with a thousand people and 120 pages of documentation--and...
Oct 19, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Bush: Marlboro’s Man Bush: Marlboro’s Man
While the differences between George W. Bush and Al Gore may still be coming into focus for many Americans in the final weeks before the election, one is already stark. On tobacc...
Oct 19, 2000 / Dan Zegart
‘Charity Believeth All Things…’ ‘Charity Believeth All Things…’
Rochester, Mich. Dennis Hoover is mistaken when he recommends that we say "Yes to Charitable Choice" [Aug. 7/14]. The issue is exactly the same as with religious schoo...
Oct 19, 2000 / Our Readers
Blaming Arik Last Blaming Arik Last
Marvin Kalb, executive director of the Washington office of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, diagnoses an anti-Israel tilt in the US media,...
Oct 12, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
‘Vote Your Hopes, Not Your Fears’ ‘Vote Your Hopes, Not Your Fears’
Take this as a national parable. Once upon a time--in the early eighties, actually--there was a progressive coalition in Vermont designed to become a third force in politics. One...
Oct 12, 2000 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Gay-Bashing at the Polls Gay-Bashing at the Polls
In their hunger to take back the White House, the Jerry Falwells and the Pat Robertsons have swallowed the mellow prose of Texas scripted for them by George W.'s handlers--but at...
Oct 12, 2000 / Doug Ireland
The Nation Dozen The Nation Dozen
THE NOVEMBER 7 ELECTION is not merely about ending six years of GOP dominance but also about assuring that the next Congress is pulled in a more enlightened direction. Starting e...
Oct 12, 2000 / Column / John Nichols