Articles

Report From the Front Report From the Front

It is incredible here.

Dec 9, 1999 / Feature / Stephanie Greenwood

Waging War in Space Waging War in Space

"Master of Space"--a motto of the United States Space Command, a joint Air Force, Army and Navy command set up by the Pentagon in 1985--says it all.

Dec 9, 1999 / Karl Grossman and Judith Long

Food Fight Comes to America Food Fight Comes to America

As the international uprising against genetically engineered (GE) foods continues to grow, the worst fear of US government and business officials is that the commotion abroad wil...

Dec 9, 1999 / Feature / Maria Margaronis

The Politics of Food The Politics of Food

Case sawed shakily at his steak, reducing it to uneaten bite-sized fragments, which he pushed around in the rich sauce.... "Jesus," Molly said, her own plate empty, "gimme that.

Dec 9, 1999 / Feature / Maria Margaronis

On the Release of John McCain’s Psychological Records On the Release of John McCain’s Psychological Records

Still reason to worry.

Dec 9, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Kosovo: On Ends and Means Kosovo: On Ends and Means

The spectacle of human beings acting out mindless violence through pack behavior instills more terror in the heart than perhaps any other event in the natural world.

Dec 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney

Exploding Plastic Inevitable Exploding Plastic Inevitable

The fifties may have been the last great moment when Americans entrusted their dreams of transformation to the material world.

Dec 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Joanne Jacobson

‘Rock’ in a Hard Place ‘Rock’ in a Hard Place

Not since Charlton Heston painted the Sistine Chapel has there been so epic a film about arts patronage as Cradle Will Rock. Heston, you will recall, had to cope only with the Va...

Dec 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Democracy Bites the WTO Democracy Bites the WTO

Seattle was indeed a milestone for a new kind of politics. 

Dec 9, 1999 / The Editors

The Battle Beyond Seattle The Battle Beyond Seattle

A little broken glass in the streets of Seattle has transformed the World Trade Organization into a popular icon for the unregulated globalization that tramples human values on e...

Dec 9, 1999 / William Greider

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