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2000 Stories by Harold Meyerson

• Forget Those Supremes!

  published December 28, 2000

  Photo by Michael Powers Don’t look now, but Al Gore is starting to run away with the election. On Monday, as the Electoral Colleg... More >>

• Whatever It Takes

  published December 21, 2000

  It’s not as if the Supreme Court comes before us with clean hands. In the course of its 200-plus years, it has at various times ruled that n... More >>

• W. Stands for Wrongful

  published December 14, 2000

  Al Gore has had a crummy week, but popular sovereignty in America has had a catastrophic one. In Tallahassee, Judge N. Sanders Sauls ruled that... More >>

• No Votes, Please

  published December 7, 2000

  It would be one thing if all this misery were being visited only upon Al Gore. There‘s a kind of rough justice, after all, in this most inep... More >>

• Rampant Illegitimacy!

  published November 30, 2000

  It‘s that time of year, boys and girls, to tell the story of how the word turkey became a derogatory term. The first, and primary... More >>

• Who Crowned George?

  published November 23, 2000

  So who, exactly, has said that W. is our next president? This assertion, initially heard on election night, was first trotted out by... More >>

• On the Brink

  published November 16, 2000

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• Unsafe at Any Speed

  published November 9, 2000

  Photo by Virginia Lee HunterLet’s start with two propositions. First, Ralph Nader is a genuine American hero who is running on what is th... More >>

• Panic Time

  published November 2, 2000

  Now is the autumn of our anxiety Made dangerous bummer by this son of Bush Panic is now permissible. If the elections were... More >>

• A Man and His Message

  published October 26, 2000

  In the end, Al Gore went back to the only thing that had worked for him during this long, frustrating campaign year. He returned to the themes... More >>

• Out of the Past

  published October 19, 2000

  Like a film running inexplicably backward, first slowly, then faster and faster until everything‘s a blur, the Middle East we thought we kne... More >>

• From Wild to Mild

  published October 19, 2000

  IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, the high point of modern American political discourse was reached during an exchange between the Veep and the W. in... More >>

• The Workers Walk

  published October 19, 2000

  For Los Angeles, it‘s 1946 all over again. In the 18 months following the conclusion of World War II, America experienced a massiv... More >>

• Masters of Deceit

  published October 19, 2000

  ”Thirty-five of the most progressive cities in the United States have passed living-wage laws,“ the mailer begins, and, in smaller typ... More >>

• The Dick and Joe Show

  published October 12, 2000

  THEY CAME, THEY SAT, THEY ACTED LIKE GROWN-UPS. This must have been how it was in the old days, when Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson... More >>

• Debating the Details

  published October 12, 2000

  Good thing this isn‘t an election for student-body president. If it were, W. would win in a walk. In matters of manner -- and i... More >>

• Mechanical Decency

  published October 12, 2000

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• The Greenberg Factor

  published September 21, 2000

  Having pulsated subliminally over the airwaves, the rats are now leaving the sinking ship. At first glance, the news that a... More >>

• Working-Class Hero, Sort of

  published August 31, 2000

  To visualize Al Gore’s dilemma, picture him bowling. The image itself is just the sort of thing the Gore campaign is trying to implant in ou... More >>

• What the Democrats Need To Know About Los Angeles

  published August 17, 2000

  Photos by Slobodan Dimitrov (top) and Anne Fishbein , I. L.A. 1960 Forty years ago, when the Democrats assembled here to... More >>

• What Los Angeles Needs To Know About the Democrats

  published August 17, 2000

  It‘s nap time in America. In this, the summer of our content, the nation seems blissfully oblivious of the presidential campaigns... More >>

• Martin Luther Bush

  published August 10, 2000

  It wasn’t until the final night of the Republican Convention that I realized George W. Bush has no white friends. Oh, I knew tha... More >>

• Make Nice

  published August 10, 2000

  I. Kinder, Gentler, Compassionate Philadelphia, Wednesday morning -- Something’s wrong with our TV sets. What we‘re seeing is t... More >>

• Father Knows Best

  published August 3, 2000

  Move over, Old Joe Kennedy. Until this week, you were the pre-eminent, gray-eminence pop in American campaign history, the invisible wizened... More >>

• No Public Displays

  published July 20, 2000

  So where exactly do our city leaders propose that demonstrators at next month‘s Democratic Convention should rally? Zuma Beach? The Angele... More >>