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The New Student Movement The New Student Movement

This article is part of the Haywood Burns Community Activist Journalism series.

Apr 27, 2000 / Feature / Liza Featherstone

Dr. Laura, Be Quiet! Dr. Laura, Be Quiet!

Dr. Laura Schlessinger has said a lot of hurtful and irresponsible things on the radio during her many years as a right-wing religious "therapist" and yenta.

Apr 27, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt

The Beat The Beat

County Fairs and Fairness Vermont's passage of "civil union" legislation, which provides gay and lesbian couples most rights and protections aff

Apr 27, 2000 / John Nichols

Elián Sí, Cold War No Elián Sí, Cold War No

It will be a long time before we forget the picture flashed around the world of Elián González being rescued at gunpoint.

Apr 27, 2000 / The Editors

Lead–Balloons & Bouquets Lead–Balloons & Bouquets

Arlington, Mass.

Apr 27, 2000 / Our Readers

Extra! Extra! Read Less About It Extra! Extra! Read Less About It

* * * When legendary media critic A.J. Liebling issued that warning some decades ago about the corrosive effect of media monopolies on the First Amendment, media ownership...

Apr 24, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Final Cut on Final Solution? Final Cut on Final Solution?

Since you presumably know the basics about the Holocaust--if you don't, I would suggest that a movie review is no place to learn them--I will jump to the main question about The ...

Apr 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Art of the Free and Brave Art of the Free and Brave

A woman I know once agreed to take a young Asian child to visit a school in New York, to which her distant parents considered sending her.

Apr 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

In Moby-Dick, in the chapter "The Fossil Whale," Ishmael proclaims: "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme." The theme of Joyce Carol Oates's Blonde--well, it'...

Apr 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Lawrence Joseph

Hawking Vietnam Hawking Vietnam

With the twenty-fifth anniversary of the American withdrawal from Vietnam hard upon us, readers and viewers may well be treated to a multitude of reprises of the arguments surrou...

Apr 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Richard Falk

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