Harold Meyerson

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire -- The voters have spoken, and George W. Bush leaves New Hampshire looking like nothing so much as an Internet stock whose bubble has burst. It wasn‘t his current performance, his daily rounds as a candidate, after all, that prompted all those Republican donors, governors and congressmen......

Bradley, Corbis; Gore, Michael PowersI. MUTATIONS   AT THE OUTSET, THEY SEEMED AN AWFUL LOT ALIKE. AL GORE AND BILL BRADLEY weren't exactly the yin and yang of the Democratic Party. They were more the yin and yin, or, at most, yin A and yin B. A couple of socially......

So much for settling down to a long winter‘s nap. Since the Legislature in its wisdom has moved the primary from June to March, California voters have less than eight weeks to make up their minds on any number of crucial questions -- not least, who they think should be......

“Loap,” “Passafire,” “Red Head,” “Glitter Girl,” “Grimus,” “Bean,” “Panda,” “Little Bit” and “Zane,” ravers who hang out on Baldwin Avenue, Sierra Madre Photographed by Michael Powers Winesburg, Ohio, we’re not. Or Spoon River. In L.A., the surprises that come when you meet your neighbors aren’t the surprises of Sherwood Anderson......

A personal history of the ‘60s Talk about your sound and fury signifying nothing! As a cause for celebration, the commemoration of an arbitrary marking of time -- be it the New Year or the Millennium -- has always left me a little cold. Every other holiday commemorates something, whether......

In the spring and summer of 1986, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Rose Bird and I played a peculiar game of phone tag. I was the newly hired director of an independent campaign on behalf of Bird and two associate justices (Joe Grodin and Cruz Reynoso) whose continued tenure was......

Okay, who were those kids? Though the media have done their usual sensationalist spreads profiling the several hundred anarchists who trashed downtown Seattle, that still leaves unresolved the identity of the other 20,000 nonlabor demonstrators. Yes, a number came from other nations and around the U.S., but the vast majority......

photo by Rick Dahms The last time the World Trade Organization had a major meeting, it was in Singapore, and now we know why. Singapore, of course, is the city-state that accords near-perfect freedom to banks and corporations while jailing political activists and caning messy tenants and people who chew......

AP/Wide World One of the leading Congressional critics of free trade — and one of the very few Congressional critics of millennial, global, everything-for-sale capitalism — is Vermont Congressman Bernie Sanders. An avowed social democrat, Sanders was elected to the House in 1990 as an independent, and has been re-elected......

Carrots, Jessica Boone; Ruben & Ramon, APWide World; Hayden, Debra Dipaolo Tom Hayden was never really a perfect fit for Sacramento, as he himself was the first to admit. Most freshman legislators see a career in the capital as the way to shape their public political identities. When Hayden first......