Shedding Lincoln’s Mantle

American politicians are not noted for their historical self-consciousness.

Eric Foner

Schmoozapalooza 2000

So ABC is arranging its convention coverage around an exhibition football game. NBC is giving us just the acceptance speeches.

Eric Alterman

Bush’s Touchy-Feely Economics

The economics of George W.

William Greider

The Beat

UNWELCOMING THE REPUBLICANS “It’s surprising that the Republicans are coming to Philadelphia, really surprising.

John Nichols

In the Eighth Circle of Thieves

The power and sovereignty of corporations is an enormous humiliation to a society of free people.

E.L. Doctorow

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 grumpy about George

David Corn

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 importance.

David Enrich

Politics 2001: Bush Rules, Gore Drools

Robert Scheer

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.

Christopher Hitchens

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 enterprises.

Robert W. Snyder