My Advice for the Final Enraged Cuban-American Demonstrator in Miami My Advice for the Final Enraged Cuban-American Demonstrator in Miami
Some lessons can be learned from strife. The lesson here is: Get a life!
May 3, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Antitrust & the Media–I Antitrust & the Media–I
This spring the topic of antitrust returned to the headlines after a long absence as the government pursued and won (for the time being) its case against Microsoft and, in a more...
May 3, 2000 / Robert W. McChesney
Presidents, Not Kerreys, Bred Horror of Vietnam Presidents, Not Kerreys, Bred Horror of Vietnam
A tangled web of disingenuous calculation marked developments there, and the public was the more deceived.
May 1, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Time To Stop Tinkering With the Machinery of Death Time To Stop Tinkering With the Machinery of Death
When Anthony looked at the calendar, he could see that he had only two days to live. Where must your thoughts run when you taste your own death in your mouth?
Apr 27, 2000 / Russ Feingold
On Tyson vs. Downey On Tyson vs. Downey
I was watching Mike Tyson knock Robert Downey Jr. to the floor when the thought popped into my head, "Is this what I want from a movie?" It was a pressing question.
Apr 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Intervention Blues The Intervention Blues
Perhaps one of the most fatuous theories ever promulgated was Francis Fukuyama's "End of History," put forth just as, in most parts of the world, history resumed its sanguinary p...
Apr 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
Lost in Amazonia Lost in Amazonia
After a century of repressing or deriding Woman as a symbol of beauty, high culture in the West has suddenly gone over.
Apr 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Wendy Steiner
Hip-Hop Politics on Campus Hip-Hop Politics on Campus
"You have no idea how much love I got for this," says David Jamil Muhammad, referring to his role as a student organizer of "Hip-Hop Generation--Hip-Hop as a Movement." The confe...
Apr 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Johnny Temple
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