The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

A former reporter and editor at the Washington Post Greider is credited with coining the term "Nader's Raiders" in a Post article dated November 13 1968. the broad public.

His most recent (2009) book is Come Home America: The Rise and Fall (And Redeeming Promise) Of Our Country. Greider also wrote a book on globalization -- One World Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism (1997) -- which suggested vulnerabilities and inequities of the global economy.