Is the Green Party the worst threat to progressive politics since Reagan or its best hope since the New Deal?
Nicholas Confessore
Nicholas Confessore is a reporter for The New York Times. Previously he was an American Prospect senior correspondent and an editor of The Washington Monthly.
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Targeting House Managers?
Poor Jim Rogan. The two-term congressman from California, it seems, is the focus of a dastardly campaign by Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party to take down the heroic House impeachment managers of yore. “I have been targeted for defeat,” Rogan wrote in a recent four-page, tersely syntacted National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) letter. “They’re […]
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The Odd Couple
On a recent Thursday morning, not long after the Amadou Diallo verdict, Al Gore stopped by New York City’s P.S. 163 to talk up his education proposals. Anti-Gore elves had been up early, stacking “Ask Al Gore” leaflets on tables at the entrance: “If you want to know how African Americans became identified … as […]
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Sessions vs. Sessions
Contrary to popular belief, it’s rare to catch a politician in a moment of perfect hypocrisy. But the ongoing Senate fight over George W. Bush’s nominees to the federal bench is providing many such opportunities. “You don’t get absolute power to utilize your own personal prejudice without any justification to block even a consideration of […]
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Still A Thief:
In these early days of the Bush Restoration, it’s easy to muster up the kind of sheer animus that so occupied the right when Bill Clinton eased into office on the strength of a bare plurality back in 1992. And it’s not pleasant. Some days — when W. nominated the sleazy Ted Olson as Solicitor […]
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Nader’s Raid
In late April, the forces of compassionate conservatism issued notice of yet another battle won over the evils of Clintonism. “Bush Shows Strength in Pacific Northwest,” proclaimed a press release from the Bush campaign in bold faux newspaperese. And indeed, according to two new polls, George W. Bush was edging Al Gore by one point […]
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Are Virginia’s Democrats Doomed?
Yesterday, Republican Randy Forbes narrowly beat Democratic Louise Lucas in a special election for Virginia’s 4th Congressional District. Predictably, the GOP is claiming that this amounts to a “bellwether” victory for their president and their party; as goes Virginia’s fourth CD, so, apparently, goes the nation. Also predictably, this is mostly nonsense. There’s no doubt […]
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Ridge Over Troubled Waters
The last time a Catholic bishop from Pennsylvania took an ax to some promising piece of vice presidential timber, it was a Democrat who got felled. That was in 1984, when the late Cardinal John O’Connor–then recently promoted to New York’s archdiocese from Scranton, Pennsylvania–attacked Geraldine Ferraro at a pro-life convention for “distorting” the church’s […]
