John Travolta stars as a barely-fictionalized Bill Clinton in Mike Nichols' 1998 sorta-satire about how politics crushes idealism. We excavate this once-praised relic from the End of History, and are left with the question: what, exactly, was "idealism" in the Clinton era?

"Bridges to Nowhere" by Nathaniel Friedman - https://thebaffler.com/salvos/bridges-to-nowhere-friedman