The Beat The Beat
UNWELCOMING THE REPUBLICANS "It's surprising that the Republicans are coming to Philadelphia, really surprising.
Jul 27, 2000 / John Nichols
In the Eighth Circle of Thieves In the Eighth Circle of Thieves
The power and sovereignty of corporations is an enormous humiliation to a society of free people.
Jul 27, 2000 / Feature / E.L. Doctorow
Hard Right Burning for Bush? Hard Right Burning for Bush?
Perhaps it was because he was recovering from painful back surgery, but a few weeks before the Republican convention, Paul Weyrich, a founder of the religious right, was awful gr...
Jul 27, 2000 / Feature / David Corn
Paying to Party Paying to Party
It's no secret that the national conventions are no longer dramatic arenas in which the parties decide their presidential nominees or, for that matter, anything else of much impo...
Jul 27, 2000 / Feature / David Enrich
Politics 2001: Bush Rules, Gore Drools Politics 2001: Bush Rules, Gore Drools
Where is Al Gore? Maybe he hasn't noticed, but all sorts of horrible things are happening under the Bush Administration--just as he predicted. Yet Gore has been totally silent. ...
Jul 17, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
A City That Worked A City That Worked
The New York of 1945 was the victorious city of the New Deal and World War II, one that can barely be glimpsed today beneath postmodern towers and billboards for dot-com enterprise...
Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Robert W. Snyder
If Not Now… If Not Now…
There are a number of persuasive reasons to cast a vote for Ralph Nader in the fall, and a number of unpersuasive reasons, too.
Jul 13, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Bush Under Strain, a Heartbeat Away Bush Under Strain, a Heartbeat Away
So much good news has been generated by the Bush Administration concerning the health of Dick Cheney that perhaps all of us should have four heart attacks, a quadruple bypass, a st...
Jul 3, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Beat The Beat
NURSES HEALTHCARE Rx "When corporations took over healthcare, nurses had to make a choice between the bottom line and the patients.
Jun 29, 2000 / John Nichols
A Short History of Bill Richardson’s Campaign for the Vice Presidential Nomination A Short History of Bill Richardson’s Campaign for the Vice Presidential Nomination
What Bill was asked to do Bill always did.
There was no better soldier on the scene.
So why at Veep time won't he get the bid?
'Twas lost behind the copying machine.
Jun 29, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin