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The artful dodger
John Ashcroft's nose is growing faster than Pinocchio's during his Senate confirmation hearings. As attorney general, will he be as evasive with the truth?
Ashcroft's tough Sell
A segregationist group is banking on the hard-on-crime attorney general nominee to drop a murder conspiracy case against one of its own.
A role model for bipartisanship?
Bush attorney Ted Olson is the link between impeachment and the Florida mess; Bush had better hope Gore backers don't mimic Olson's scorched-earth crusade against the sitting president.
Republican rules of order
The Bush people say the law works this way -- except when they need it to work the other way around.
Everything but the truth
Dick Cheney says he didn't depend on government help during the big oil days that made him a $39 million man. The record of his Halliburton dealings tells a different story.
Refusing to eat crow
The Clintons have been cleared of any wrongdoing in the Whitewater case, but the journalists who went after them are standing by their stories.
Keeping a lid on the spoilers
Bush and Gore fear allowing third-party candidates into the debates because they might spark real discussions.
Ralph Nader knows better
He is one of our greatest public advocates, but his presidential campaign is leading the public astray.
Conservative whitewash
Dick Cheney is relying on our cultural amnesia to wipe away his record on South Africa.
Welcome to New York, ya bastard
Reports that Hillary Clinton used an anti-Semitic slur 26 years ago smack of a typical Rupert Murdoch smear campaign.
Clinton is no Nixon
Memo to Horowitz: "The most criminal, most corrupt, most cynical administration" isn't the current one, pal.
The new gatekeepers
Facing scrutiny for their own peccadilloes, Internet loose lips Matt Drudge and Lucianne Goldberg undergo a Kafkaesque transformation.
How the right smeared Clinton and Gore on China
Racism helped the president's enemies link fundraising scandals to accusations of espionage, with almost no evidence.
Why is this man smirking?
Bush's plan to privatize Social Security sounds too good to be true -- and that's the problem.
Clash of the featherweights
George W. Bush and Al Gore both support contradictory policies on China and Cuba. Neither can explain why.
The Elian metaphor
If we really cared about Cuban children, we'd end the embargo.
Double play
It's bad enough that the New York Times got Hillary Clinton's role in the Madison S&L case wrong back in 1996, but how do they explain doing it again, four years later?
Lessons from "Erin Brockovich"
If tort reformers like George W. Bush had their way, greedy corporations like California public utility PG&E would still be poisoning their neighbors.
Fresh feathers, Mr. Safire?
You always wanted to have your crow and eat it too on the Clinton scandals, so now it's time for you to keep your word.
Taking on the untouchables
John McCain's decision to attack the leaders of the religious right is refreshing because Republican leaders have too long been cowed into submission by these bigots.
Why is McCain backing off?
The puzzling decision to let Bush off the hook about crony-style campaign fund-raising could sink the Arizona senator's insurgency.
Shadowboxing Democrats
The real reason for Bradley's challenge to Gore is his dislike of President Clinton. This was never mentioned in the run-up to the New Hampshire primary.
Down the up staircase
McCain and Bradley were the darlings of the press corps for a while, but now they are its victims.
The millennial struggle continues
The forces of fundamentalism, having failed in their coup d'etat in Washington, are nonetheless still with us as we enter the new age.
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