Harold Meyerson

I. SILENCE ON THE LEFT IT'S QUIET OUT THERE. TOO QUIET. You'd half expect some social theorist to come along any day now and proclaim -- as Daniel Bell proclaimed at the end of the '50s -- that America has reached the end of ideology. At minimum, we seem to......

Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov The last time an American union organized at least 75,000 workers in a single local campaign, it was the spring of 1941. The workers were the employees at Ford’s River Rouge plant just outside Detroit — the nation’s largest factory, employing more people in one place......

Photo: AP/Wide World It would be nice to think that it’s finally over — that with last week’s verdict, the Republicans will finally stand down in their war against Bill Clinton. After all, it’s not as if the yearlong jihad of Ken Starr, and then the House managers, ever altered......

Photo courtesy AP/Wide World On Monday, February 1, when Monica Lewinsky gave her testimony to House prosecutor Ed Bryant, the Tennessee Republican assigned to depose her, the 12 other House managers involved in the prosecution of the president stayed away. Well, 11 of them stayed away. Glendale Republican James Rogan,......

Photos courtesy AP/Wide World The Year of Monica is ending as it began: with a stunning act of personal betrayal. In the beginning, there was Linda Tripp, whose rage at Bill Clinton led her to turn on a young woman she had befriended and counseled. And now comes Christopher Hitchens,......

Photo courtesy AP/Wide World So now the Senate — by its own assessment the world’s greatest deliberative body — has decided to subpoena witnesses. On Tuesday, it debated the issue behind closed doors — fearing, no doubt, that if it conducted the world’s greatest deliberations in public, the very planet......

Photo by AP/Wide World Official Schedule, Office of the President, Tuesday, January 19: 1 p.m.: In the matter of president’s misstatements concerning sex (oral, nonmutual) with intern, White House counsel refutes characterization of same as grounds for removal; 9 p.m.: President delivers State of Union Address, establishes ideological hegemony and......

Gray Davis has been governor of California for just about 10 days now, but the general character of his administration can already be discerned. The era of mean government, at which both George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson excelled, is over. The era of cheap and inadequate government continues apace. On......

Photo by Ted Soqui It began with the closest thing to a consensus of elites that L.A. has seen in decades. Old John Ferraro stepped to the mike to address Tuesday’s meeting of the city’s Elected Charter Reform Commission and urged the commissioners to approve the compromise that had been......

Photo by Ted Soqui Even the maximalists are minimizing the enormity of what the Republicans did last week. The redoubtable Pat Buchanan, calling upon the Senate to hang Bill Clinton from the highest yardarm, commends the House Republicans for having "bravely defied our political, academic, media and cultural elites." Buchanan......