The left's ongoing hysteria over Patrick Buchanan's turn to the Reform Party, and his subsequent endorsement by Reform's progressive Black leader Lenora Fulani, speaks volumes about the state of the American left. It tells us that beneath the anti-Buchanan...

THE BATTLE of Seattle prefigures another battle, now less than 11 months away. It's the Battle for Seattle, the contest over who will be the ultimate beneficiary of those protests at the ballot box.

Liberalism is back -- maybe not in name, but in spirit and in substance. Its return has been forecast several times in the 1990's, but now it is clearly in flower. From voter surveys to the floors of Congress, we see abundant evidence that Americans are embracing sensible activist government.

Pat Buchanan has signed his declaration of independence. He did it with an appeal to a new patriotism - fittingly enough, as patriotism and political independence have been linked since the American Revolution.