Presidential Race

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  • A question of faith

    Why religion-based social help, the pet issue of Al Gore and George W. Bush, may be the next president's first broken promise.
    By Michael Kress August 30, 1999

  • Texas judge rules against Bush

    A motion to force Eliza May to give a deposition in the Texas "Formaldegate" matter was rejected.
    By Robert Bryce August 27, 1999

  • John McCain plays Dumbo

    Guns and elephants are not the same, the presidential hopeful says. You got that right, Senator.
    By Jake Tapper August 26, 1999

  • The little old hell-raiser from Pasadena

    Granny D, 89, is walking across the U.S. to push for campaign finance reform.
    By Suzi Parker August 26, 1999

  • The blame game

    Bush's people are putting the Steve Forbes campaign on the defensive in the drug-use controversy.
    By Susan Crabtree August 25, 1999

  • Louder than words

    George W. Bush, who refuses to answer questions about his own drug use, slashed drug rehabilitation programs for inmates while ushering in tougher sentencing laws.
    By Robert Bryce August 24, 1999

  • Class will tell

    The Bush cocaine controversy should encourage an overdue debate on why drug abuse among the rich is a "disease" while among the poor it is a "crime."
    By Joe Conason August 24, 1999

  • "A noble hypocrisy"

    Conservatives grapple with George W.'s drug-rumor woes.
    By Dave Shiflett August 24, 1999

  • The funeral scandal time line

    A chronology of the battle between the Texas Funeral Service Commission and Service Corporation International.
    Compiled by Robert Bryce August 20, 1999

  • Who is Eliza May?

    Is the woman at the center of the Texas funeral home scandal a wronged government watchdog or a Democrat with a political agenda?
    By Robert Bryce August 20, 1999

  • Austin, we have a problem

    What does his clumsy, evasive handling of rumors of cocaine use do to George W. Bush's much-heralded "electability"?
    By Jake Tapper August 20, 1999

  • They feed horses, don't they?

    Bush and Forbes finished one-two in the Iowa straw poll, and why not? They paid for this circus, after all.
    By Jake Tapper August 16, 1999

  • "Nuke 'em. Nuke the bastards"

    So said Bill Pullman in "Independence Day." But what would he say at the State of the Union?
    By Anthony York August 14, 1999

  • Hollywood can wait

    Americans are frustrated with the gridlocked two-party system. Is the answer Warren Beatty?
    By Anthony York August 13, 1999

  • Bill Bradley: The next black president?

    His campaign purports to make race a central issue, but so far it's more style than substance.
    By Keith Moore August 11, 1999

  • Guns and money

    The owner of the firm that made an assault rifle found in the van of accused killer Buford Furrow was, until recently, a key George W. Bush fund-raiser.
    By Jake Tapper August 11, 1999

  • Did Bush lie under oath in funeral home case?

    An SCI attorney says the Texas governor talked to him about a state agency investigation, contradicting Bush's affidavit in the case.
    By Robert Bryce and Anthony York August 9, 1999

  • Gov. Death

    George W. Bush has presided over an execution in Texas almost every two weeks since his election. Why isn't that a campaign issue?
    By Christopher Hitchens August 7, 1999

  • The thinker

    Bill Bradley may have "big ideas," but as a notoriously cautious senator he sat out the big political fights.
    By Joshua Micah Marshall August 6, 1999

  • "He's going to have to hit a sitting jump shot"

    Bob Kerrey talks about why -- against the odds -- he endorsed Bill Bradley for president.
    By Jake Tapper August 6, 1999

  • Pulling a Clinton?

    George W. Bush is locked in a legal battle to keep him off the witness stand in a growing influence-peddling scandal.
    By Robert Bryce August 5, 1999

  • Fanatics of the far right

    Ex-GOP Sen. Bob Smith is thinking about joining the U.S. Taxpayers Party. He should think again.
    By Jake Tapper August 4, 1999

  • "I'm not peaking too early"

    Al Gore takes on his critics and the substance-averse media, who've savaged the vice president for all the wrong things.
    By Jake Tapper August 4, 1999

  • So this is compassion?

    George Bush's compassionate conservatism sounds a lot like Al Gore's. But are faith-based charities really the answer to America's problems?
    By Debra Dickerson July 29, 1999

  • Bill Bradley: Achingly funny and profound

    Dish-lovin' gal stumped by stilted Stepford candidate. Plus: More proof there is no God: Survey shows the Donald nearly in a dead heat with Mini-Bush.
    By Amy Reiter July 23, 1999
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