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Make no doubt about it, when it comes to environment, Gore has the clear edge. The author of the 1992 manifesto Earth in the Balance is an avid supporter of the Kyoto protocol--a 1997 commitment signed by over 100 countries to stem global emissions of greenhouse gases. By contrast...
Bush didn't speak out on partisan bickering during the fiercest, most personal manifestation of it two years ago, but he wants to end it now, when partisan bickering could clarify the issues. In the last debate, Bush took credit for passing a bill allowing patients to sue HMOs, when...
But would an anthropologist learn much from all of that? I might take refuge in the predictable subject of television. Television dominates and distorts whatever it touches (witness American sports); it has skewed and corrupted American democracy by imposing the need to raise vast sums of campaign money, thereby putting...
With candidates and interest groups carpet-bombing key markets, the question is whether they are informing and persuading voters or confusing and annoying them. At WLNS in Lansing, Mich., not even the daytime soaps or weekend football games offer a refuge from politics anymore. "I'm sick of all the...
Yet Bush has become so smooth with the Oprah language of caring (against Gore's tin ear for it) that he got the biggest applause of the night on David Letterman last Thursday when he repeated the "trust" mantra. Indeed, when Gore in the debate brought up the Dingell-Norwood...