Vote for Nader Vote for Nader
It must be some playful new postmodernist form of politics: First you spend years ranting about the plutocracy that has supplanted American democracy and is rapidly devouring t...
Aug 10, 2000 / Feature / Barbara Ehrenreich
The Other America The Other America
On the eve of the Democratic convention, the challenge to Democrats is to recognize the limits of the current economic boom and act boldly to assist those left behind.
Aug 10, 2000 / Feature / Jan Schakowsky
Planks for a People’s Platform Planks for a People’s Platform
The draft Democratic Party platform doesn't speak forcefully to the concerns of ordinary people.
Aug 10, 2000 / Feature / Various Contributors
GOP Ticket Has Struck Oil GOP Ticket Has Struck Oil
Have you ever wondered who really benefited from the Gulf War, which will be celebrated this week at the Republican National Convention as the crowning, if singular, achievement ...
Aug 1, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Pity Bush, Gamely Shedding Treaties Like Dandruff Pity Bush, Gamely Shedding Treaties Like Dandruff
It is time to rally around our President and forego the constant drumbeat of criticism that has been his lot on the world stage ever since he discovered that foreign policy invol...
Jul 31, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
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
Bush’s Touchy-Feely Economics Bush’s Touchy-Feely Economics
The economics of George W.
Jul 27, 2000 / Feature / William Greider
Shedding Lincoln’s Mantle Shedding Lincoln’s Mantle
American politicians are not noted for their historical self-consciousness.
Jul 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner