Questions From the Floor Questions From the Floor
On the eve of the first presidential debate, a new poll has found that strong majorities of Americans have high levels of interest and concern about a range of issues that are ra...
Sep 28, 2000 / The Editors
High-Tech Cheap Labor High-Tech Cheap Labor
Only months after a major victory on China trade, Big Business is again scavenging for cheap labor. This time, the high-tech industry is pressuring Congress to allow additional f...
Sep 28, 2000 / David Enrich
If Politics Got Real… If Politics Got Real…
To Nader or not to Nader, that is the question. A debate over whether Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader is a savior or a spoiler has raged for months among progressi...
Sep 28, 2000 / Rob Richie and Steven Hill
Newt, Still Newt, Still
When he was king, the Democrats Saw Newt as all that's rotten. Though he's long gone, they're making sure He doesn't get forgotten. On every ad, they talk of Newt's ...
Sep 28, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Policing Pregnancy Policing Pregnancy
The Supreme Court opens its new term with a case that raises the stakes dramatically in the politics of fetal rights. At issue in Ferguson v. City of Charleston is whether a publ...
Sep 28, 2000 / Rachel Roth
‘Controlling Authority’ ‘Controlling Authority’
In campaign speeches George W. Bush repeats Al Gore's defense of his 1996 campaign fundraising phone calls from his government office--"there is no controlling legal authority"--...
Sep 28, 2000 / Robert L. Weinberg
Is the Wall Crumbling? Is the Wall Crumbling?
The current Supreme Court is so divided on fundamental questions of separation of church and state. that the appointment of one or two conservative Justices could well tip the bala...
Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Norman Redlich
Earth in the Judicial Balance Earth in the Judicial Balance
To date, the Rehnquist Court's environmental record has been mixed. While no darling of the greens, neither has it been consistently "brown."
Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / James Salzman
Letters Letters
Our readers and Ellen Schrecker and Maurice Isserman on "The Right's Cold War Revision."
Sep 25, 2000 / Our Readers
The Supreme Court Issue The Supreme Court Issue
The Rehnquist Court's paeans of praise for state government are belied by reality.
Sep 25, 2000 / Herman Schwartz