Of all the conversations I’ve had since Election Day, the saddest have been with Democratic get-out-the-vote operatives in Ohio and Florida. The fate of the K
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WE’RE ALREADY A WEEK into the post-11/02 world, and the liberals and moderates of the Democratic Party are grieving but have not yet begun their customary civ
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There have been worse nights, I suppose. Kristallnacht, certainly. The nights
of September 11, 2001, and December 7, 1941, were unbearably awful. And just
looking a
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Illustration by Ron Dunn
Fortune is a fickle mistress. A year and a half ago, 60-year-old Bernard Parks was a man with the wind at his back. He had just coasted to
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President and Vice President
John Kerry and John Edwards
With the possible exception of Jefferson Davis, and for some of the same reasons, George W. Bush is the
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Photo (top) by Jay Muhlin
In the spring of 2001, Abbas Kiarostami told me, “I think the best writers truly are the ones we have come to know over the
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John Forbes Kerry won the televised duel with George Bush — both on demeanor and on points. The question is, will it make much of a difference a month from now
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Art by Faile
When emotion drove stock-market prices to absurd new highs during the ’90s tech boom, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan famously said the financ
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Photos by Dan Ollman
“Bush stood right over there,” says Laurel. “They built a platform for him and three governors and the secretary of the inter
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Photo by Ted Soqui
The president, I suspect, is already descending. The Time and Newsweek polls, taken during (and, in the case of Newsweek, a few hours following)
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The long-simmering standoff between Runyon Canyon rivals has turned into a real dogfight. Faced off against each other over issues of park use and parking are local
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Dan Carvin may be out of a job, and he may have a nasty lawsuit to resolve, but state lawmakers are becoming interested in what got him fired in the first place.
O
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