Y2K: The Prequel Y2K: The Prequel
Our New Year's number is a mother goose with three eggs tucked behind. It could be a sign of cryptic rhymes and unhatched possibilities--or maybe of silliness, tailed by a lot of...
Jan 6, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Brownout at School Brownout at School
The Color of School Reform represents the kind of scholarship that by rights should influence the design of smart policy.
Jan 6, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp
Saying It Ain’t So on Joe Saying It Ain’t So on Joe
The cold war has been over for a decade but it lingers on the American home front.
Jan 6, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stanley I. Kutler
Who Owns the Fourth Estate? Who Owns the Fourth Estate?
Dentists and cardiologists warn their patients about plaque, harmful to both teeth and arteries.
Jan 6, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano
Ford and the Führer Ford and the Führer
Research assistance provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.
Jan 6, 2000 / Feature / Ken Silverstein
Home Discomforts Home Discomforts
Isn't it curious how often the policy disaster that is posited as the thing that will never happen takes place within minutes?
Jan 6, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Campaign Mystery Campaign Mystery
Conservatives cannot explain Just why reporters boost McCain. It seems an odd way to express The liberal bias of the press.
Jan 6, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Answers Are… The Answers Are…
In our November 29 issue appeared "The Presidential Aptitude Test," a proposed snap quiz for candidates inspired by George W. Bush's flunking a test on the names of certain forei...
Jan 6, 2000 / The Editors
Greenspan and Gravity Greenspan and Gravity
The giddy adoration of Alan Greenspan has come to resemble the stock market bubble itself and, when one phenomenon comes to its end, so will the other.
Jan 6, 2000 / William Greider
President Putin? President Putin?
Boris Yeltsin's sudden resignation as President on New Year's Eve provoked ritual praise of his legacy by the same editorial voices that have been championing him for nine years ...
Jan 6, 2000 / The Editors