Not the least dismaying aspect of the most recent crisis in Northern
Ireland has been the stampeding of public opinion here in the United States
into denunciation of the IRA, and into sympathy to the political maneuvers
of the British...
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19 January 2000
We're in for an orgy of boasting, this campaign year, about the dropping crime rates, with the "get tough" crowd pounding their chests and claiming victory. For the first half of last year, FBI figures showed a 10 percent decline in "...
08 December 1999
It's one of the marvels of the season that Bill Bradley has been able to muster to his cause such bankable liberal names as Senator Paul Wellstone, Prof. Cornel West, Robert Reich and the editor of The Nation, Katrina vanden Heuvel...
24 November 1999
Amid the latest batch of Nixon tapes, there's a ripe one from May 13, 1971, recently described by James Warren in the Chicago Tribune. Discussing welfare reform with Haldeman and Ehrlichman, the president snarls about the "little...
30 September 1999
After weeks of bitter partisan wrangling over budget issues, the federal
government began its new fiscal year on October 1. Such political
confrontations have become routine in Washington. As strategists work
overtime, news...
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