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• How the Grinch Stole Election Day 
  Frank Cammuso Nov. 21, 2000
  
• Presidency in a Lockbox  Our complete election and recount coverage.
  Nov. 11, 2000
  
• How Slatesters Voted 
  Nov. 7, 2000
  
• The New Yorker Replies 
  Oct. 28, 2000
  
• People for the Correct Way 
  Gregg Easterbrook Oct. 10, 2000
  
• What Was Al Gore Thinking? Guess the meaning of the vice president's drawings.
  Oct. 7, 2000
  
• Mindy! 
  Bill Barol Sept. 7, 2000
  
• Why Is Joe Lieberman Dissing My Mother? If you take all his God talk seriously, it's insulting. Also wrong and a bit un-American. 
  Bruce Gottlieb Sept. 2, 2000
  
• Unpatriotic   Gibson's patriot is Sonny Corleone, not Sgt. York. 
  Michael Lind July 28, 2000
  
• Does Group-Shopping Work? The economics of Mercata and Mobshop. 
  Bruce Gottlieb July 26, 2000
  
• Math for Jeopardy! Players How contestants regularly blow their final bet. 
  Matt Gaffney July 20, 2000
  
• Is Voting Rational? And if so, is voting for Ralph Nader rational?
  Ira Carnahan July 13, 2000
  
• eBay or the Highway Its size is its selling point—and its curse. 
  Bruce Gottlieb July 7, 2000
  
• Look! Rare and Important Junk! The highs and lows of sales pitches on eBay. 
  Jenn Shreve June 27, 2000
  
• Black and White TV Writers Who do you have to boycott to get a polite rejection around here?
  Bob Spyglass June 14, 2000
  
• Double Dribble at the Twin Tier Tongue Dome "Tryone Pippins puts a pick on Peppers, and that's a pack of picks on Peppers ..."
  Frank Cammuso June 9, 2000
  
• The End of Mystery The encroachment of science on fantasy's last redoubts.  
  Charles Paul Freund June 7, 2000
  
• The Phony Science of Predicting Elections Who'll win in November? The experts' guess is as good as yours. 
  Karl Eisenhower May 31, 2000
  
• Ready or Not? Has Clinton weakened America's defenses?
  Michael O'Hanlon May 19, 2000
  
• Alumni Notes From Selective State University You knew them when. 
  Howard Mansfield May 18, 2000
  
• Disbar Bill He ducked impeachment and he'll probably avoid prosecution. Here's the just punishment for his crimes. 
  Steve Chapman May 13, 2000
  
• Philip Marlowe vs. the Web Detective Has technology made the private eye obsolete? 
  Bonnie Goldstein May 11, 2000
  
• My Day in the Movement 
  Scott Shuger May 10, 2000
  
• Love, Microsoft Who's to blame for the "ILOVEYOU" virus? Who else??
  James Gleick May 10, 2000
  
• The Cong Show "Ladies and gentlemen, a warm round of applause, please, for the Shecky Greene of Vietnam—Charlie Duc Tho!" 
  Deanne Stillman May 9, 2000
  
• Luke Skywalker Is Gay? Fan fiction is America's literature of obsession. 
  David Plotz April 15, 2000
  
• My Genetic Cousin, I Presume? In which a Cohen of the American variety meets his Bantu kinsman. 
  Jon Cohen April 13, 2000
  
• Was Albert Gore Sr. a Crook? No, but he was sleazy enough to embarrass Junior. 
  Timothy Noah April 6, 2000
  
• Census 2000: You May Already Be a Winner! The Census Bureau sells the 2000 count as a lottery game. 
  Tom G. Palmer April 5, 2000
  
• The Microsoft Bubble 
  James Gleick April 5, 2000
  
• Give Ex-Convicts the Vote It's a crime to deny offenders their full rights of citizenship. 
  Steve Chapman March 30, 2000
  
• A Movie Trailer We'd Like To See  
  Frank Cammuso March 23, 2000
  
• I Was a Middle-Aged Wage Slave Life at $6.15 an hour in a telephone boiler room. 
  Emily Yoffe March 21, 2000
  
• All the News That's Fit To Supress  
  Jack Shafer March 16, 2000
  
• Gods and Monsters The mythic quality of the presidential candidates. 
  Emily Yoffe March 4, 2000
  
• The Sloganery Slogs On A preview of front-runner George W.'s evolving rhetoric. 
  Jefferson Morley March 3, 2000
  
• The Cult of Zogby Why does the media treat this pollster like a god? 
  Joshua Micah Marshall March 1, 2000
  
• The Six Degrees of Chuck Berry 
  Frank Cammuso Feb. 24, 2000
  
• Readme Quick 
  Feb. 19, 2000
  
• The 1,000-Word Dash College-educated people who fret they read too slow should relax. Nobody reads much faster than 400 words per minute.
  Timothy Noah Feb. 19, 2000
  
• Faster Pussycat! Read! Read! Can our reporter train himself to read as fast as the guy in the Guinness Book of Records?
  Daniel Akst Feb. 19, 2000
  
• What's So Funny? Analyzing what are alleged to be the 75 funniest jokes of all time.
  Scott Shuger Feb. 16, 2000
  
• The Protestant Presidency Why Jews, Mormons, and Catholics still can't get elected president. 
  David Plotz Feb. 12, 2000
  
• The Prostate Gallery A museum explains how urology left the Stones Age.
  Emily Yoffe Feb. 1, 2000
  
• Hookers.com How e-commerce is transforming the oldest profession.
  Scott Shuger Jan. 28, 2000
  
• Dismembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker  Coming soon to a bookstore near you. 
  Bill Wasik Jan. 27, 2000
  
• Bill Bradley's SAT Scores When dumb things happen to smart people.
  Geoff Kabaservice Jan. 27, 2000
  
• Power, Meet Money Why the Washington establishment ignored AOL.
  David Plotz Jan. 22, 2000
  
• Congressional Ethics for Dummies Is it wrong for an elected official to influence the government?
  Timothy Noah Jan. 15, 2000
  
• Bradley's Hoop Schemes The candidate campaigns the way he used to play basketball.
  Jefferson Morley Jan. 5, 2000