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2002 Stories by Harold Meyerson

• After Gore, the Deluge

  published December 26, 2002

  Gore is gone, and the race for the Democratic nomination in 2004 is so wide open, says one Democratic pollster, that “the plausibility o... More >>

• Anyone Seen an Economic Policy?

  published December 19, 2002

  WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS, WHO makes the administration's economic policy? It's sure not the secretary of... More >>

• The Election Where Nobody Came

  published November 21, 2002

  “Democrats, for some strange reason, didn’t go out and vote in the force that we thought they would,” said Garry South, Gray Davis‘ polit... More >>

• Occupy the Valley!

  published November 14, 2002

  THE DWINDLING OF THE DEMOCRATIC base in Tuesday’s election had a lamentable effect on two local ballot measures. In Santa Monica, th... More >>

• Powerlines

  published November 14, 2002

  It is the first sign of trouble in a play about nothing but trouble. Asked by her father in the first scene what she can say to demonstrate... More >>

• The Genuine Article

  published November 7, 2002

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• A Democrat Despite Himself

  published October 31, 2002

  It is instructive that no wing of the Democratic Party claims Governor Gray Davis as its own. Though he is a fiscal conservative and attempts... More >>

• New Fault Lines

  published October 24, 2002

  GEORGE W. BUSH HAS HIS CONGRESSIONAL approval now, but I don't think he has his nation's support for war with Iraq. It's not as if he... More >>

• A More Anxious Weekly

  published October 10, 2002

  "ANXIETY IS HEALTHY. BUT IT SHOULDN'T LAST so long that it becomes destructive," David Schneiderman, the president of Village... More >>

• Patriotic Gore

  published October 10, 2002

  Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the test of a first-class mind is the ability to hold two opposing ideas simultaneously and not be paralyzed by... More >>

• On War in Iraq

  published September 19, 2002

  Maybe it’s just me, but I seem to have missed the case for going to war with Iraq. I am writing on the eve of President Bush... More >>

• Hahn's Choice

  published September 12, 2002

  IN AMERICA, ALL CITY POLITICS TENDS TO be racial — and, if the racial groups have been around long enough, tribal. This isn't true at othe... More >>

• The Old Order Trembles

  published August 1, 2002

  I. A Crisis of Faith We don’t know the right word for what we‘re going through. We’re in a financial downturn, a selloff, a sli... More >>

• Gang of Five

  published July 18, 2002

  WASHINGTON -- They have gone for the summer, but they promise to return. All of them. Sandra Day O’Connor did not announce she was leaving th... More >>

• Boroughs Under the City

  published July 4, 2002

  As an impending hanging concentrates the condemned man‘s mind, so the threat of secession has forced Los Angeles to ponder a raft of municipa... More >>

• The View From the Black Tower

  published June 13, 2002

  Lew Wasserman was the pre-eminent figure in the film industry from 1960 through 1990, and quite possibly of all time -- but to say this is... More >>

• City Without a Story

  published June 6, 2002

  QUICK, NOW: WHAT'S L.A.'S STORY? Not: "What are some L.A. stories?" Every city has stories, but they can't be added together and... More >>

• Boundaries Going Up

  published April 25, 2002

  They’re talking fences in the Mideast -- indeed, the Sharon Cabinet has already authorized two of them. The first -- between Umm el Fahm i... More >>

• Gray in His Groove

  published March 21, 2002

  I. Cloudless Gray Skies I always thought that if Gray Davis put his mind to it, he could win a Republican primary. Let‘s b... More >>

• The Wrong Battle

  published February 14, 2002

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• Let’s Roll!

  published February 7, 2002

  Great applause line: Our new national slogan, said W. on Tuesday night, is “Let’s roll!” It’s most certainly the administrat... More >>

• Where’s the Rest of It?

  published January 17, 2002

  The Democrats have issued their program for 2002, and, as proclaimed by Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle last Friday, it is one resounding... More >>