George W. Bush’s Education Plan George W. Bush’s Education Plan
A public school whose students don't test well Would lose some funds unless its score improves. If cutting funds won't help the kids advance,
Sep 16, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
On the Possibility That Pat Buchanan Will Run as a Third-Party Candidate On the Possibility That Pat Buchanan Will Run as a Third-Party Candidate
Buchanan hints he's leaving. The GOP says, "Stay!" They fear that he'd be draining The wacko vote away.
Sep 9, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Little Limbaughs and the Fire Next Time Little Limbaughs and the Fire Next Time
Residents of Skaneateles, New York, complained to visiting reporters about the Clintons' decision to make themselves relatively scarce on their recent vacation.
Sep 9, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman
Candid in Camera Candid in Camera
It all began in the heat of the summer of 1940. Hitler was at his peak in Europe. France had been defeated.
Sep 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gore Vidal
The Rest of Them Are Clean The Rest of Them Are Clean
Elizabeth Dole won't break the law. McCain has scored no coke. The thought of Hatch with smack or crack Is palpably baroque.
Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Buchanan Breaks Ranks Buchanan Breaks Ranks
In Washington, a city in which (to borrow a phrase from Virginia Woolf) all is gossip, corruption and chatter, the end-of-summer buzz has been about Pat Buchanan and whether he'll ...
Sep 2, 1999 / Editorial / Doug Ireland and Micah L. Sifry
A Word of Sympathy for Candidates Who Did Not Do Well in the Ames Voting A Word of Sympathy for Candidates Who Did Not Do Well in the Ames Voting
It really would stick in the craw To find that you had to withdraw From such a big race For not keeping pace In a poll that was nothing but straw.
Aug 19, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Will Bulworth Run? Will Bulworth Run?
Run, Warren, run? The latest made-for-buzz wrinkle in the 2000 presidential campaign is that actor Warren Beatty is considering a rewrite that would put him into the action.
Aug 19, 1999 / Editorial / The Editors
Russia and Election 2000 Russia and Election 2000
President Boris Yeltsin's firing of his fifth Prime Minister in seventeen months and Russia's renewed war in the Caucasus are stark signs of his regime's instability, desperation...
Aug 19, 1999 / Editorial / Katrina vanden Heuvel
And the Enemy Is… And the Enemy Is…
Patricia Williams will be on leave for the remainder of the year, returning to this space in January 2000.
Aug 19, 1999 / Column / Patricia J. Williams