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Remembering the 1993 Healthcare Debate While Listening to the 1999 Healthcare Debate Remembering the 1993 Healthcare Debate While Listening to the 1999 Healthcare Debate

The single-payer system, it was said, Has faults that go beyond the fact it's Red: If any faceless bureaucrat decreed That surgery the doctor says you need

Jul 22, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Spike’s Season Spike’s Season

In Summer of Sam, Spike Lee has made a small, shapely drama about two young Italian-American couples in the Bronx.

Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Doctors’ Brains Doctors’ Brains

It's 9:45 Tuesday night, and the house lights have just come on after the final scene of Wit--the surprise Off Broadway hit about a terminally ill English professor and her exper...

Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Suzanne Gordon

Corporate Greenhouse Corporate Greenhouse

This book is aimed at business executives, but political reporters may have to read it too, now that Republican front-runner George W. Bush has decided that global warming is re...

Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mark Hertsgaard

Scandalocracy Scandalocracy

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.

Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert Dallek

Spy or Savior? Spy or Savior?

If Russia is not to dissolve like the Soviet Union or, worse yet, end in a cataclysm like Yugoslavia's, it must negotiate peacefully across a welter of emotional claims to self-det...

Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney

Natural Born Killers Natural Born Killers

It didn't take long for the press to connect 21-year-old white-supremacist multikiller Benjamin Smith with the all-purpose explanation du jour: violent entertainment, in this ca...

Jul 8, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

The Wreck of the Primary Campaign The Wreck of the Primary Campaign

(A Republican Sea Chantey)

Jul 8, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Meanwhile, in Iraq… Meanwhile, in Iraq…

NATO's nightly airstrikes against Yugoslavia have ceased, but the periodic Anglo-American bombing of Iraq continues.

Jul 8, 1999 / Dilip Hiro

The Other Y2K Crisis The Other Y2K Crisis

The presidential election is sixteen months away, but candidates are already fanning out across the land, garnering dollars and media exposure.

Jul 8, 1999 / Stephen Gillers

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