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The Message of Those Spreading Rumors About John McCain’s ‘Temperament’ The Message of Those Spreading Rumors About John McCain’s ‘Temperament’

Imprisonment and torture are the sort Of things that might just drive a person daft. So just in case that happened to McCain,

Nov 25, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Prosecuting Innocence Prosecuting Innocence

Like countless parents, Cynthia Stewart of Oberlin, Ohio, is an ardent amateur photographer who loves to take pictures of her child.

Nov 25, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Exploiting a Tragedy, or Le Rouge en Noir Exploiting a Tragedy, or Le Rouge en Noir

The author of this review is the son of a zek: My father barely survived his deportation to a Siberian camp in Vorkuta.

Nov 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

We Can Fight, We Can Win We Can Fight, We Can Win

See our chart lining up corporations and countries--together--in order of their economic clout.

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh, and Thea M. Lee

States’ Rights and the WTO States’ Rights and the WTO

The World Trade Organization imposes obligations on state and local governments that limit their ability to protect consumers, establish environmental standards and undertake eco...

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / Dennis Kucinich

Raising a Ruckus Raising a Ruckus

Somewhere amid the dancing sea turtles and bustling WTO bureaucrats, the angry anarchists and the Al Gore entourage, the striking steelworkers and the billionaires in town to sip...

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / John Nichols

The Battle in Seattle The Battle in Seattle

It's billed as the Battle in Seattle.

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage

The Heat in the Kitchen The Heat in the Kitchen

He poses like a tightrope walker, though one who's unexpectedly domestic and chubby.

Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Global Is as Global Does? Global Is as Global Does?

If one wants to understand what all the fuss is about as the World Trade Organization holds its ministerial conference, Ethan Kapstein's Sharing the Wealth: Workers and the World...

Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mark Levinson

Sen’s Sensibility Sen’s Sensibility

Some years ago, I had the good fortune to befriend an extended family who lived in a poor shantytown in the southern reaches of Santiago, Chile.

Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / James North

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