Independence: An Endangered Species? Independence: An Endangered Species?
The hopes of many for the birth and sustenance of independent web journalism took a body blow recently when all 140 employees of the APBnews.com crime news site were let go with ...
Jun 15, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
Au Clair de la Lune Au Clair de la Lune
The month of June always makes me wistful. School's out. A half-liberated, half-sad seasonal sensation settles over me, a feeling I associate with childhood and summer vacation.
Jun 15, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Oh, Say It Isn’t So, Perot Oh, Say It Isn’t So, Perot
You really think you're going to go-- Just take your dough and leave the show? Oh, well. I guess we'll see you, Ross. We'll manage, somehow, with the loss.
Jun 15, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Bush’s Abortion Flip-Flop? Bush’s Abortion Flip-Flop?
Which current candidate for President reversed the abortion stand he espoused as a Congressional candidate in the seventies and adopted a position more acceptable to the mainst...
Jun 15, 2000 / David Corn
Killing Him Lets Us Off the Hook Killing Him Lets Us Off the Hook
It's difficult to get over the idea that we failed Timothy McVeigh and that his execution fails us all. How deceptive a finale it is that leaves history neatly packaged in the ce...
Jun 12, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Microsoft: Breaking Up Is Good to Do Microsoft: Breaking Up Is Good to Do
The pace of recent events made one of the most significant rulings in the history of American antitrust law seem like an anti-climax.
Jun 8, 2000 / Feature / Eben Moglen
Flower Power: The Lessons Flower Power: The Lessons
An article in the financial section of the New York Observer this spring described a company named NetJ.com Corporation.
Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
McCullers: Canon Fodder? McCullers: Canon Fodder?
What makes an American writer? In today's narrow, backlashed literary market the chain of command is quite clear. The "greats" are Updike, Pynchon, Mailer, Bellow and Roth.
Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Schulman
Prince Albert in a Can Prince Albert in a Can
What's the meaning of Al Gore? Or George Bush?
Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Corn