Laundering Yeltsin Laundering Yeltsin
The Russian Foreign Minister says it's an American plot to keep Russia weak. The head of the KGB-successor agency offers that same conviction in a formal briefing to President Bo...
Sep 16, 1999 / Feature / Matt Bivens
The Journal’s Russia Scandal The Journal’s Russia Scandal
Just before Christmas in 1997, as a tumultuous stock-market crisis ravaged emerging markets in every corner of the globe, readers of the Wall Street Journal were treated to some ...
Sep 16, 1999 / Feature / Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames
Decolonizing the Mind Decolonizing the Mind
As Hawaii's first American century comes to an end, marking grim anniversaries of overthrow and forced annexation by the United States, a groundswell for Native Hawaiian sovereig...
Sep 16, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mindy Pennybacker
Inherit an Ill Wind Inherit an Ill Wind
Way down in Georgia last month, REM lead singer Michael Stipe paused in the middle of a solo during a rock concert because he had Kansas on his mind.
Sep 16, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Larry Witham and Edward Larson
Pacifica/Bellicosica Pacifica/Bellicosica
Our coverage of the situation at KPFA in San Francisco--Marc Cooper's "Pacifica on the Brink" (Aug.
Sep 16, 1999 / Letters / Our Readers
Adults Only Adults Only
Conventional wisdom has it that Americans stopped attending foreign films as soon as the domestic ones started featuring bare breasts. Convention, as usual, is too simple.
Sep 16, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Polymaritally Perverse Polymaritally Perverse
I've always vowed I would never be one of those people--and you know who you are!--who cancel their ACLU membership in a fit of pique over a single issue.
Sep 16, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
George W. Bush’s Education Plan George W. Bush’s Education Plan
A public school whose students don't test well Would lose some funds unless its score improves. If cutting funds won't help the kids advance,
Sep 16, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
War of the Worlds War of the Worlds
When a boy comes of age in a movie made by Francophones, he's generally obliged to visit a brothel.
Sep 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Candid in Camera Candid in Camera
It all began in the heat of the summer of 1940. Hitler was at his peak in Europe. France had been defeated.
Sep 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gore Vidal