Articles

A Green Foreign Policy A Green Foreign Policy

The power of the market, and of the giant corporations that dominate it, is the overriding political fact of our time.

Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard

Humanitarian Intervention: A Forum Humanitarian Intervention: A Forum

Holly Burkhalter Holly Burkhalter has more than twenty years' experience in the human rights field.

Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Various Contributors

The American Ascendancy The American Ascendancy

The turn of the millennium provided yet another occasion to celebrate a triumphant American Century.

Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Bruce Cumings

A Foreign Policy for the Common Citizen A Foreign Policy for the Common Citizen

A quarter-century after the end of the Vietnam War, and eleven years after the collapse of the Berlin wall, it has become commonplace to say that we Americans have no consensus o...

Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Kai Bird

The ‘Shame’ Game The ‘Shame’ Game

When we last visited New York Times foreign affairs pundit Thomas Friedman during last year's Seattle protests, he was attacking critics of the antidemocratic World Trade Organiz...

Apr 20, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman

Welfare Movement Rises Welfare Movement Rises

The federal law that gave us "welfare reform" expires in September 2002.

Apr 20, 2000 / Frances Fox Piven

A17 and Counting A17 and Counting

The thousands of protesters who danced, marched and, in a few cases, got clubbed by police as they tried to shut down the meetings of the World Bank and the International Monet...

Apr 20, 2000 / The Editors

Cheney Was a Gusher Deal for Halliburton Cheney Was a Gusher Deal for Halliburton

Let's not begrudge Dick Cheney his $36 million income last year. Sure, it dwarfs the puny $744,682 reported by the President, but George W. Bush represents old money, and he know...

Apr 17, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Semper Fi, But Why? Semper Fi, But Why?

Were I to tell you that Rules of Engagement features a protracted fistfight between Samuel L.

Apr 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Reparting the Waters Reparting the Waters

It is delightfully ironic that a site has been approved for the construction of a monument in Martin Luther King Jr.'s name on the Washington Mall, given that in the last months ...

Apr 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jason Sokol

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