Articles

Presidential Bidding Presidential Bidding

Let 1999 go down in electoral history as the year the "wealth primary"--a term coined by Jamin Raskin and John Bonifaz in law review articles to describe the period of early fund...

Aug 5, 1999 / The Editors

Bush’s Death Watch Bush’s Death Watch

In rather the same way as new movies are now "reviewed" in terms of their first weekend gross, new candidates have become subject to evaluation by the dimensions of their "war ch...

Aug 5, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Not for Me Not for Me

I think I'd rather not belong At this point to the Falun Gong. The exercises don't look easy, And doing them might make me queasy

Aug 5, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Gloves Off in the Garden State Gloves Off in the Garden State

The newly regilded dome of Trenton's state capitol may be shimmering under the intense summer sun, but if New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman's entourage is sweating bulle...

Aug 5, 1999 / Feature / Doug Ireland

Think Globally, Run Locally Think Globally, Run Locally

In the summer of 1997 Amory Houghton, the "moderate" six-term Republican Congressman who represents my home county in upstate New York, cast a crucial vote against the "no arms t...

Aug 5, 1999 / Feature / Caleb Rossiter

Old Masters Old Masters

For contemporary reactions from Nation critics to the films of Stanley Kubrick, follow these links: Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Shining...

Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Ex-Prom Queen Goes Home Ex-Prom Queen Goes Home

Thomas Wolfe wrote that you can't go home again. Alix Kates Shulman disagrees.

Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Beverly Gologorsky

Hitler’s Viennese Waltz Hitler’s Viennese Waltz

"Austria had many geniuses, and that was probably its undoing."     --Robert Musil

Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter

Chile Declassified Chile Declassified

On September 28, 1973, seventeen days after the bloody coup that brought Gen.

Jul 22, 1999 / Feature / Peter Kornbluh

Prescription: Protest Prescription: Protest

Neil Shulman, MD, first started seeing patients at Grady in 1969. For more information or to help, contact [email protected].

Jul 22, 1999 / Feature / Neil Shulman MD

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