The Beat
From Seattle to Washington After last fall's anti-WTO protests rocked Seattle and the world, activists asked, "What next?" The answer is a week of tea...
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April 24, 2000 Issue
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Editorial
Seattle Sequel in DC
"Seattle East," "A16," "Mobilization for Global Justice"--by whatever name you call it, a coalition of Teamsters and turtles, students and scholars, church, human rights, cons...
Column
Feature
Free Trade and the ‘Starving Child’ Defense
Ajit Singh, who graduated from Punjab University and obtained his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, is professor of economics at Cambridge Universi...
Raising a Ruckus: Students Take the Bus to DC
Students heading for DC are bringing more than a toothbrush and a change of underwear.
Jubilee 2000: Paying Our Debts
A massive natural disaster reminds us why people worldwide have been engaged by the issue of debt relief.
Time to Rein in Global Finance
The financial crisis that collapsed Asian economies in mid-1997 and then bounced around the world was a distant sideshow to most Americans until it reached Wall Street.
Talking ‘Anarchy’ With Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is a longtime political activist, writer and professor of linguistics at MIT.
Books & the Arts
He Took a Village
In the role of New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell--source and subject alike of Joe Gould's Secret--Stanley Tucci adopts the hesitant drawl of a displaced Southern...
Decline of the West
"I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided," said Sam Shepard, explaining his motivation for writing True West. "It's a real thing, double nat...
Her Own Lambs and Falcons
It really is about time we had the letters of Rebecca West.
Talking ‘Anarchy’ With Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is a longtime political activist, writer and professor of linguistics at MIT.
