Harold Meyerson

Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov “OF MY THREE CAMPAIGNS, THIS ONE has generated the most emotion, the most volunteers,” Paul Wellstone told me on an unseasonably cool and beautiful afternoon in late August as his legendary green campaign bus bounced along down some Minnesota byway. “My supporters think there’s just so......

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 to govern from the center, the centrist Democratic Leadership Council -- a group that hails every remotely friendly sewer commissioner as a path-breaking New Democrat......

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 hasn't made a number of cases for going to war: September 11 has shown us to be more vulnerable to terrorists; Iraq harbors terrorists,......

"ANXIETY IS HEALTHY. BUT IT SHOULDN'T LAST so long that it becomes destructive," David Schneiderman, the president of Village Voice Media, which owns the L.A. Weekly, told reporter RJ Smith in an article that Los Angeles Magazine ran on the Weekly this April. When Schneiderman's words appeared in print, anxiety......

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‘s address to the U.N., where he will presumably make the case for intervention. I know he will because he has to make the......

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 other levels of government. In state capitals and in Washington, where issues of wealth distribution are determined, class politics exist alongside those of race. At......

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 slide. As I write, it‘s not a crash, though it could become a crash on any given day. The word panic (at least, as a noun)......

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 the Supreme Court, contrary to all the informed (that is, sheer) guesswork that predicted she‘d be out the door when the session ground to a......

As an impending hanging concentrates the condemned man‘s mind, so the threat of secession has forced Los Angeles to ponder a raft of municipal reforms. In 1999, the city adopted a new City Charter which created a neighborhood council system, weakened some of the City Council’s powers (the inevitable result......