Warren Beatty can play a useful liberal role—but not as a candidate.
Harold Meyerson
Harold Meyerson is editor at large of The American Prospect.
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Gore’s Mating Ritual
To those of you who’ve been feeling socially inadequate because your mind goes blank whenever the subject of Who Should Be Al Gore’s Running Mate comes up at barbecues or on white-water rafting trips: relax. The American Prospect‘s poll of the experts conducted in late June has uncovered a similar dearth of suggestions among the […]
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Union Man
Steve Rosenthal, political director of the AFL-CIO, is perhaps the only one of America’s thousands of political strategists who genuinely has armies to deploy. And as Rosenthal sees it, the time to elect Al Gore is now. “The campaign is going to be won or lost between now and August, not after Labor Day,” he […]
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A Clean Sweep
On Friday, April 7, I came upon one method of increasing the income of the working poor that, I confess, had never even occurred to me. The janitors of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1877, embroiled in a countywide strike, were marching down Wilshire Boulevard from downtown Los Angeles to tony Century City, roughly […]
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Dead Center
The centrist politics of the election produced a shrunken electorate and mandate. Are there fresh sources of progressive energy at the grass roots?
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A Paler Shade of Gray
In the beginning was the money. Gray Davis isn’t running for anything in 2000; he is just now beginning the second year of his initial four-year term. Yet in his first 13 months as governor, he’s managed to collect about $1 million a month for his campaign treasury. That’s about five times as much as […]
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Life, Liberty and the Obligation to Defend Both
Lear: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou’lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button: Bulgari-made, Gorgeous, surprisingly affordable, Thank you sir. Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there! Dies Lear, Act […]
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Follow the Money Laundering
Just how good is American liberalism’s inner ear? Defending an open society in the wake of September’s attacks demands that we strike the right balance between security and liberty, between the first of the Declaration of Independence’s inalienable rights and the second; and that we remind our countrymen that in a battle of ideals with […]
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Bombs and Butter
By night, we drop bombs; by day, we drop peanut butter and jelly. Our daytime rounds, at least at the outset of the campaign, seem more symbolic than our nightly ones; the amount of food we’re delivering from the sky does not make up for the amount of food that no longer can be delivered […]
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Without DeLay
Nothing divides the labor movement like a good cityelection. To watch the calculus of narrow self-interest play out in the scrambledunion endorsements of candidates in this month’s New York mayoral primary is tobe grateful that all politics isn’t literally local–that at least rudimentaryconcerns of ideology tend to loom larger in state and national contests. In […]
