America and the World: The End of Easy Dominance America and the World: The End of Easy Dominance
In the more trying period ahead, a modest internationalism would fare best.
Nov 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Sherle R. Schwenninger
From the ‘Burbs to the ‘Hood From the ‘Burbs to the ‘Hood
Activists are finding success solving social problems on a regional basis.
Nov 2, 2000 / Feature / Jay Walljasper
Official Secrets Law Official Secrets Law
At the close of its session, Congress considered two bills addressing classified information. One had been pending for more than a year, had more than a hundred co-sponsors, was ...
Nov 2, 2000 / David Cole
‘If You’re Talkin’ Politics…’ ‘If You’re Talkin’ Politics…’
Washington, D.C. As I have traveled the country in this election year, many progressives have asked me whether I believe a vote for Ralph Nader is justified to promo...
Nov 2, 2000 / Ani DiFranco, Our Readers, and Rep. John Conyers
Don’t Blame Ralph Don’t Blame Ralph
If Gore loses the White House--and some of you reading this will know whether or not he did--he'll have no one but himself to blame. Readers of this page know I've been something...
Nov 2, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Al, You Should Try Taking Credit Where Credit’s Due Al, You Should Try Taking Credit Where Credit’s Due
I want to vote for Bill Clinton for President again, but that not being possible I had resigned myself to Al Gore. Surely, I thought, he would defend the Clinton Administration...
Oct 30, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Middling Against the Ends Middling Against the Ends
This presidential race leaves an odd sensation among those of us not having a television. Like the much-cited Kennedy-Nixon race, in which the camera was generally thought to ha...
Oct 26, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Not One Vote! Not One Vote!
Bernie Sanders is right. Ralph Nader is "one of the heroes of contemporary American society." How sad, therefore, that he is helping to undo so much of his life's work in a misg...
Oct 26, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Day After The Day After
In Chicago, in mid-October, I did a radio show with the Bill Buckley-ish Milt Rosenberg of WGN, a big station. Rosenberg said that because of the fairness doctrine our discussio...
Oct 26, 2000 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
If Politics Got Real… If Politics Got Real…
If politics got real...the debate over costly prescription drugs would turn to more fundamental solutions like breaking up the pharmaceutical industry's patent monopolies, which ...
Oct 26, 2000 / William Greider