Elections

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  • Iran's chess war

    The intellectual pastime is the latest symbol in the struggle between the country's democratic reformers and Islamic clerics.
    By Flore de Preneuf February 18, 2000

  • Iran's revolution may be in jeopardy

    Will the overwhelming number of young voters tip the scales in the elections? Or will their apathy prove a greater threat to reformers than the mullahs?
    By Vivienne Walt February 18, 2000

  • Payoffs, fear and bloody conflict

    With his usual bag of dirty tricks, Slobodan Milosevic looks to be preparing Serbia to reelect him.
    By Laura Rozen February 10, 2000

  • "Three Kings," one "Witch" and a "Princess"

    Salon Arts & Entertainment's critics pick their favorite movies of 1999.
    December 17, 1999

  • Is voter ignorance killing democracy?

    Some political scientists say it is; others maintain that a brain-dead populace does no damage to our hallowed political system.
    By Christopher Shea November 22, 1999

  • Maybe I should buy you a globe for Christmas

    George W. Bush's father planned to hit then-Gov. Bill Clinton with a series of one-line "zingers" about his foreign policy ignorance in '92, but guess who's laughing now.
    By Robert Parry November 20, 1999

  • Return of the stiff man

    The vice president turns in an uninspired performance in an electronic town hall meeting.
    By Alicia Montgomery November 17, 1999

  • Tough-talkin' Pat plays Dixie

    Reform Party hopeful Buchanan's mix of barbs and bombast finds a ready audience down in Clinton country.
    By Suzi Parker November 17, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Do Catholics deserve "Dogma"? Plus: You can't define the Net by its ghettos; what did the Bible tell white supremacist killers?
    Letters to the Editor November 16, 1999

  • Bill Bradley -- life saver?

    The presidential hopeful's new commercial claims that he once saved a baby's life, but the truth is a little more complicated than that.
    By Jake Tapper November 16, 1999

  • Pick a peck o' presidents

    Not sure who to vote for? Tell your views to a presidential polling site and it will pick out just the right candidate.
    By Jenn Shreve November 11, 1999

  • The kingmaker speaks

    Pat Choate, the man behind the strategy to craft a left-right-center coalition with Pat Buchanan out front, reveals the plan to seize the White House next year.
    By Fred Branfman and David Weir November 11, 1999

  • Together at last

    Now that Buchanan is taking his followers over to the Reform Party, the extreme right and extreme left can finally be united in their isolationist vision of the world.
    By David Horowitz November 8, 1999

  • The Silicon Dominion skews right

    Virginia's booming high-tech industry helps the GOP wrest control of the state government away from the Democrats for the first time in history.
    By Alicia Montgomery November 3, 1999

  • Philly's IOU mayor

    With so many political favors to return after his anemic victory in Philadelphia, will John F. Street turn City Hall into a house of cards?
    By Howard Altman November 3, 1999

  • Dollar Bill's dollar bills

    After leaving the Senate, Bill Bradley built up a network of supporters in the private sector who are now helping to finance his surprise challenge to Al Gore.
    By Jake Tapper November 3, 1999

  • The faker

    What has presidential candidate Bill Bradley ever done to deserve the support of liberals?
    By Joe Conason November 2, 1999

  • The men who would be king

    In the absence of the main attraction, George W. Bush, the other five Republican hopefuls strut their stuff in their first town meeting of the season.
    By Jake Tapper October 29, 1999

  • Snake eyes

    Corporate gambling interests finally ran into a stretch of bad luck in Alabama and South Carolina, and the national implications are staggering.
    By Dave Shiflett October 27, 1999

  • Goodnight, Irene

    Blacks have voted overwhelmingly Democratic for years, but now they seem to be rethinking their political allegiances.
    By Debra Dickerson October 23, 1999

  • Election coverage, gonzo-style

    Alternative Vote 2000 brings the counterculture to election coverage. Plus: High Times turns 25; what happens if Amazon tanks?
    By Jenn Shreve October 22, 1999

  • Now for some real money

    With her campaign over, Elizabeth Dole is free to pursue a more lucrative calling: Self-promotion.
    By Monte Paulsen October 22, 1999

  • Deleted?

    Political Web pioneer Linda Muller e-mails her "Buchanan Brigades" the news that she was dismissed by the candidate's sister.
    By Alicia Montgomery October 21, 1999

  • Money talks, reform walks

    The McCain-Feingold campaign-finance bill died in the Senate on Tuesday. Again.
    By Jake Tapper October 19, 1999

  • White men can jump

    When Baltimore, which is 65 percent black, chose a white as its next mayor, it marked a watershed event in the evolution of America's racial politics.
    By Debra Dickerson October 13, 1999
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