Conservatism as Phoenix Conservatism as Phoenix
You want to find out why politics has become so dreary? You won't find the answer in Rick Perlstein's book. But what you will find is relief. I've read Before the Storm twice and ...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Robert Sherrill
Brilliant Legal Tactics By Raoul Felder Brilliant Legal Tactics By Raoul Felder
So Rudy's lawyer, playing the piranha, Decided he'd gain ground by dissing Donna. The judge, appalled that anyone could be As crude as that, then squashed him like a flea. Th...
May 25, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Wind She Blows The Wind She Blows
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," some sage once wrote. Just so. As this issue went to press, the Museum of International Folk Art, a state-run insti...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Art Winslow
De-Foucaulding the GOP De-Foucaulding the GOP
De-Foucaulding the GOP New York City Win McCormack's sophisticated examination of conservative tactics in the last election was fascinating ["Deconstructing the...
May 25, 2001 / Win McCormack and Our Readers
Bush’s New Gas Guzzler Bush’s New Gas Guzzler
George W. Bush's energy plan fudges the facts, raises false alarms, shamelessly peddles halfhearted green measures--all to provide a cover under which to slide the oil industry's ...
May 25, 2001 / The Editors
The Jeffords Jump The Jeffords Jump
"What do we do now?" That famous last line of the 1972 film The Candidate, in which Robert Redford finds himself--to his surprise--elected to the Senate, should be on the minds of...
May 23, 2001 / David Corn
The FBI in Peace and War The FBI in Peace and War
The FBI knows every way To put a case in disarray. For years they managed to mislay Some tapes a Birmingham DA Could use against the KKK. Because some files had gone astray ...
May 17, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Beauty and Sadness Beauty and Sadness
A tidal wave is coming. Soon I am sure. It will sweep all of us away. --The opening lines of Eureka One of the more familiar works of Japane...
May 17, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson
No Rush to Judges No Rush to Judges
President Bush's first list of nominees to the US Circuit Courts of Appeal, unveiled on May 8, was deceptively conciliatory and seeded with hard-to-oppose minorities and women, st...
May 17, 2001 / The Editors
Villaraigosa’s Hot in Los Angeles Villaraigosa’s Hot in Los Angeles
His mayoral campaign platform is the most progressive in modern city history.
May 17, 2001 / Feature / Marc Cooper