By Richard Brookhiser 8/27/01 12:00am

On the Campaign Trail With Lonely Herman Badillo

On Aug. 21, Herman Badillo turned 72. He celebrated not by

fishing, golfing or playing a round of canasta, but by toiling like an

infantryman in the trenches of New York politics, hoping to score an upset in

the Republican Mayoral primary on Sept. 11, and then a greater one on Election

Day. I followed Read More

By Richard Brookhiser 6/25/01 12:00am

Democratic Mayoral Hopefuls Enter Conservative Lion’s Den

Eight years ago-only one year into the Clinton era-the

Republican Party saw a pre-dawn shimmer of hope in a handful of successful

off-year elections. Winning gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey and Virginia

were nice, but not unprecedented. The big surprises were victories in big-city

Mayoral races in Los Angeles and, especially, New York. If Republicans Read More