Infinite Jest Infinite Jest
Dave Eggers's memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, has been a bit too loudly hyped as an ironic tearjerker, and a media juggernaut has branded its author a tragic h...
Mar 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Elise Harris
Bush Family Conversations on Retaking the White House Bush Family Conversations on Retaking the White House
The first son seemed anointed, then The tide began to ebb. Did anybody ever ask, "So could we bring in Jeb?"
Mar 2, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Court Did What Helms Couldn’t: Trashed the ADA The Court Did What Helms Couldn’t: Trashed the ADA
The rogues in robes are on the move. US Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the leader of the pack, and the rest of the Court's right-wing majority have launched a ...
Feb 27, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Beat The Beat
PRISON PROTESTS: February 15 was a doubly significant date in the history of US criminal justice.
Feb 23, 2000 / John Nichols
Dog Days Dog Days
The first thing Jim Jarmusch asks you to do in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is to look up and down.
Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Stations of the Cross Stations of the Cross
Perhaps no contemporary writer has more singlemindedly mined a single vein of literary ore than E.L. Doctorow has New York City, especially the New York of the past.
Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Melvin Jules Bukiet
Why We Need a Care Movement Why We Need a Care Movement
We have the Bill of Rights and we have civil rights. Now we need a Right to Care, and it's going to take a movement to get it.
Feb 23, 2000 / Feature / Deborah Stone
California Youth Take Initiative California Youth Take Initiative
Four hundred teenagers converged outside the four-star Hilton hotel in San Francisco, then pushed inside the plush lobby with whoops and chants.
Feb 23, 2000 / Feature / Robin Templeton
The Liberal Media, RIP The Liberal Media, RIP
"Electrifying and oh-so vital." If that sounds like model Melania Knauss testifying about the sexual prowess of her former boyfriend, Donald Trump, guess again. It's the sound of...
Feb 23, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
A Theological Analysis of the South Carolina Primary A Theological Analysis of the South Carolina Primary
In Kennebunk, land of the Bushes, The men of the cloth all wore tweed. And one didn't meet any Christians Like Robertson, Falwell and Reed.
Feb 23, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin