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The Man Who Won NAFTA Emerges Victorious on China Trade The Man Who Won NAFTA Emerges Victorious on China Trade

So Clinton's found the key once more To triumphs he can savor: He takes the lead on issues that Republicans all favor.

Jun 1, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Block That Rush! Block That Rush!

I suppose it would be in my financial interest if Rush Limbaugh were to get his wish and become part of the broadcast team for ABC's Monday Night Football.

Jun 1, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Al Franken

Going Postal Going Postal

Bravo and Happy Birthday to Harper's Magazine, and to Lewis Lapham and John (Rick) MacArthur (editor and publisher, respectively).

Jun 1, 2000 / The Editors

Power Crisis Has Mileage for Bush Power Crisis Has Mileage for Bush

The Bush Administration is pulling a fast one on energy, and we will all pay dearly for decades to come. By panicking the public with oil industry propaganda of an energy shortag...

May 29, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

Witness to History The End of the Peace Process:

May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

The Troves of Academe The Troves of Academe

"A university," poet John Ciardi acidly observed, "is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." Add this contemporary counterpunch: A college is what a...

May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano

Harrington’s Dilemma Harrington’s Dilemma

Maurice Isserman's The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington evokes and will enrich the legacy of the last great American socialist in the tradition of Eugene Debs and N...

May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden

Brands ‘R’ Us? Brands ‘R’ Us?

Jeremy Rifkin wants to rock the world of the jaded reader: He predicts that we're entering a completely new--the final--stage of capitalism.

May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jane Slaughter

How We Made the Balkans How We Made the Balkans

When the Pulitzer prizes were announced in April, surprisingly none of the hundreds of journalists covering the war in the Balkans last year were among the winners.

May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder

When the CIA Was the NEA When the CIA Was the NEA

In June 1948 George Kennan, director of the State Department's policy planning staff, drafted National Security Directive NSC-10/2.

May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Michael P. Rogin

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