The Beat The Beat
PRISON PROTESTS: February 15 was a doubly significant date in the history of US criminal justice.
Feb 23, 2000 / John Nichols
Dog Days Dog Days
The first thing Jim Jarmusch asks you to do in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is to look up and down.
Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Stations of the Cross Stations of the Cross
Perhaps no contemporary writer has more singlemindedly mined a single vein of literary ore than E.L. Doctorow has New York City, especially the New York of the past.
Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Melvin Jules Bukiet
Why We Need a Care Movement Why We Need a Care Movement
We have the Bill of Rights and we have civil rights. Now we need a Right to Care, and it's going to take a movement to get it.
Feb 23, 2000 / Feature / Deborah Stone
California Youth Take Initiative California Youth Take Initiative
Four hundred teenagers converged outside the four-star Hilton hotel in San Francisco, then pushed inside the plush lobby with whoops and chants.
Feb 23, 2000 / Feature / Robin Templeton
The Liberal Media, RIP The Liberal Media, RIP
"Electrifying and oh-so vital." If that sounds like model Melania Knauss testifying about the sexual prowess of her former boyfriend, Donald Trump, guess again. It's the sound of...
Feb 23, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
A Theological Analysis of the South Carolina Primary A Theological Analysis of the South Carolina Primary
In Kennebunk, land of the Bushes, The men of the cloth all wore tweed. And one didn't meet any Christians Like Robertson, Falwell and Reed.
Feb 23, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Lennon’s MI5-FBI Files Lennon’s MI5-FBI Files
The headline in the Sunday Times of London was spectacular: Lennon Funded Terrorists and Trotskyists. It was also erroneous.
Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
America’s Debt to Blacks America’s Debt to Blacks
Well before the birth of our country, Europe and the eventual United States perpetrated a heinous wrong against the peoples of Africa and sustained and benefited from the wrong t...
Feb 23, 2000 / Randall Robinson