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Gore Vidal may not have been the first well-known American writer to talk freely about his same-sex orientation, but he was certainly the one who led the way for all [...]

Moscow 'For you they're images,' a journalist said. 'For us it's real life.' 'Mafia is used to describe almost every political leader.' 'The new masters have no ethics; everything is [...]

The electoral system in America is now being convulsed by the broadest, fiercest voter insurgency in perhaps 140 years, and the left is watching from the sidelines. This need not [...]

Jerry Brown's victory in the Connecticut primary on March 24 transformed the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination. What had been a protest candidacy, 'a dog nipping at the heels [...]

The big deal in Lowell this winter was an all-day 'motivational program' given by a TV self-esteem pitchman named Tony Robbins to a crowd of some 2,700 people, each of [...]

It was said of Belgrade after World War II that there was nothing in the shops except dead flies and pictures of Tito. So it is this winter in Manchester, [...]

The time has come to add health care to the structure of public prosperity in America. It is a time that recalls other great public points of departure: government recognition [...]

Paul Tsongas came out of the blue. The one-term Senator from Massachusetts who quit Washington in 1984 because of a diagnosis of incurable cancer was barely in the bleachers of [...]

In the marvelous melodrama that is small-state politics, the more-or-less liberal Democratic Governor, Madeleine Kunin, loomed as Sanders's archetypal antagonist. Like Sanders, Kunin was an oddball in traditional Vermont; as [...]

War creates consent. The best wars-those that are fought decisively, are won quickly and cost little-deliver so much approval to those who wage them it's a wonder strong leaders allow [...]

The twenty-four weeks' crisis, from the expedition of U.S. forces to the Persian Gulf right up to the eve of destruction, had an extraordinary impact on American history, more emphatic [...]

Washington 'I'm walking a tightrope,, Donna Shalala said with more relish than regret, plumping down on the nubby beige sectional sofa in her vast Health and Human Services office, just [...]

If a theme could be discerned in the Democratic National Convention beneath the balloons, the bravado and the boilerplate, it was the emergence of a new social culture in a [...]

That sturdy old American political weathervan the New Hampshire Primary, has become mo like the whirling arrow on the television quiz show Wheel of Fortunix a media game of who [...]

As the New Hampshire primary heats up, we forgo our usual editorial commentary in order to present a report from our intrepid colleagues Andrew Kopkind and Alexander Cockburn, who have [...]

BUCHANAN - WE'D RATHER BE RIGHT Pat Buchanan struck at noon. Right on the button for the cable news shows and precisely at the moment when workers in the Capitol [...]

The Festa dell'Unita, a three-week national fair run at the end of every summer by the late Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.), used to end in a mass rally with fiery [...]

THE STUART CASE RACE, CLASS AND MURDER IN BOSTON Murder is war on a very small scale, and like great battles, a single slaying can define and focus the history [...]

The gay moment is unavoidable. It fills the media, charges politics, saturates popular and elite culture. It is the stuff of everyday conversation and public discourse. Not for thirty years [...]

The back of the bus was a breeding ground for much of the theory and strategy of Jesse Jackson's campaign for the presidency, and riding there one day toward the [...]

PAUL SIMON: RETURN OF THE LIBERAL There are six seasons in northern New England: spring, summer, fall, winter, mud and tain't. It is now tain't season: Tain't foliage, tain't snow, [...]

At the moment of maximum opportunity during the Senate hearings on the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, Jesse Jackson came to call on Howell Heflin of Alabama, [...]

Des Moines. It is impossible to get the full flavor of a presidential caucus campaign in Iowa without attending a kickoff celebration in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Savery, [...]

THE DUKAKIS PLAN HAVE WE SEEN THE FUTURE? The miracle in Massachusetts has transformed society in ways that Governor Michael Dukakis hardly imagined when he began praying and planning for [...]

DOWN AND OUT IN L.A. A mysterious and debiliating virus is ravagingthe older ranks of Los Angeles's liberal west side just as the political season opens. The inopportune infection--featured on [...]

Facing South Africa The epic drama of South African liberation promises scenes of sweeping emotion, heavy with historic meaning: throngs filling the streets, tanks converging on the capital, colonialism shrinking [...]

West Hollywood is no place like home. The tiny enclave in the vast Los Angeles basin inverts the demographics, politics and poetics of what Americans consider normal urban life. It [...]

When museums of post-modern art in twenty-first-century culture malls mount their great film retrospectives, the elaborate cartoons and extended comic strips of the 1970s and '80s will no doubt be [...]

Not since the era of the late junior Senator from Visconsin has an American political figure given this country an eponymous ism. Reaganism is now an established movement and an [...]

Jesse Jackson does not stop running. In the year since he sought the Democratic presidential nomination, he has barely missed a day on public view or a chance for extending [...]

As revolutions go, the street fighting that took place around Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village on the night of June 27, 1969, lacked the splendor of the Bastille or the [...]

Barely a year ago hundreds of thousands of gays and lesbians thronged Washington to celebrate a new measure of political power and social recognition won after long struggle. The White [...]

What becomes a legend most? Over the course of almost fifty years in public life, Richard Nixon created an extraordinary wardrobe of political costumes: the 'respectable Republican cloth coat,' the [...]

However much the 'politics of meaning' enriches Clinton family's discourse, it seems to be excluded from the Administration's practice. At least in the area of culture and the arts, the [...]

The approving media and exultant gay leaders who reported the docility and normality of the March on Washington on April 25 must have missed the thousands of 'Lesbian Avengers' roaring [...]

The only point of this campaign is to get somebody in the Oval Office who will put Robert Reich in the basement. --Overheard at the Democratic National Convention As the [...]

'He's hot, he's sexy-and he's dead.' That memorable Rolling Stone headline referred to Jim Morrison, but it might well have been John F. Kennedy, the other subject of a major [...]

Marty Duberman needed help. He was incurably attracted to his own sex in a time and place-America in the 1950s-when the theology of heterosexuality offered the only hope of earthly [...]

The great debate about the nature of the world order began with the breaching of the Berlin wall on November 1989. It ended barely fifteen months later with the invasion [...]

This is Immigration,' the caller said to the White House liaison, with a hint of perplexity in his voice. We've got an African revolutionary here who's been in jail for [...]

Jesse Jackson almost got to the White House. Lunch with George Bush was laid out in the vice presidential office, next-door to the Executive Mansion, but for Jackson it was [...]

Here we go again. Democrats of liberal bent have begun the soothing process of self-delusion that characterizes the early stage of every election campaign in which, as Time predicts for [...]

O.K., BRUCE, THAT'S A WRAP--NEXT! At 7:16 last Tuesday night, the New England Telephone Company declared Bruce Babbitt nonexistent. The networks were still hedging, but Directory Assistance had lost the [...]

STRATEGIC SHIFT TO THE LEFT Class war is raging in Iowa. Robert Dole, millionaire friend of Midwestern entrepreneurs, evokes his po' boy beginnings to score populist points against aging millionaire [...]

IS JESSE THE GREAT WHITE HOPE? As campaign flaps go this year, Jesse Jackson's twenty-four-hour misunderstanding with white social democrats last month should rate only an asterisk to a footnote [...]

AMERIKA: IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE Somewhere in the murky midlands of Amerika, ABC's fourteen-and-a-half-hour miniseries on the extension of Soviet hegemonism to the Western Hemisphere, a native-born American wonders how [...]

Second Serve (May 13, CBS) Gender is a prison from which there is no real hope of escape. Most inmates come to enjoy the advantages of maximum security, the predictability [...]

Under Siege (February 9, NBC) Brazil Worst-case scenarios are not the same as screen-plays. In the Holocaust and Apocalypse School of Dramaturgy, however, aspiring writers are encouraged to scab the [...]

Someone should make a movie about the Greek civil war. It has all the elements of great epic drama: three millenniums of antecedent history, unremitting tragedy of literally mythic proportions, [...]

In the early stages of William Hurt's performance as Molina, the Brazilian transvestite and petty pederast trapped in a prison cell, a well-born bit of Brit-lit apocrypha popped into my [...]