Remembering in Black and White Remembering in Black and White
It may be my imagination, but this year Black History Month has seemed to present a more complicated range of memorials than in the recent past.
Feb 10, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Farewell, Gary Bauer Farewell, Gary Bauer
x Farewell, adieu to Gary Bauer. We never thought that you'd be our Next President. Too small. Too sour. The countryside we'd have to scour
Feb 10, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The McCain Insurgency The McCain Insurgency
Every presidential contest in the past two decades has produced something of a quasi populist--a mad-as-hell candidate of the left, right or center who runs against the establish...
Feb 10, 2000 / David Corn
China Spying Story: All the Excuses Fit to Print China Spying Story: All the Excuses Fit to Print
China Spying Story: All the Excuses Fit to Print 20010206 The words of the FBI inquisitor concerning his treatment of Wen Ho Lee couldn't have been more chilling: "It seemed l...
Feb 6, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Original Valley Girl The Original Valley Girl
Bette Midler got her first starring role in the movies in 1979, playing the lead in The Rose, a thinly disguised biopic about Janis Joplin.
Feb 3, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Sweating Out the Words Sweating Out the Words
CLARIFICATION: A sidebar to Debbie Nathan's February 21 "Sweating Out the Words," about The New Yorker's literary contest and the publishing and informatics industries (converting ...
Feb 3, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Debbie Nathan
Bobby, He Hardly Knew Ye Bobby, He Hardly Knew Ye
Robert Scheer was the last journalist to interview Robert Kennedy.
Feb 3, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Robert Scheer
The Pinochet Principle The Pinochet Principle
The arrest of Augusto Pinochet in England more than a year ago stunned the world and emboldened those seeking to bring dictators and war criminals to justice.
Feb 3, 2000 / Feature / Roane Carey
Medical Rebels Medical Rebels
Research support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.
Feb 3, 2000 / Feature / Katherine Eban Finkelstein
Justice for Bernard Baran Justice for Bernard Baran
On January 30, 1985, 19-year-old Bernard Baran was convicted of molesting five 3-, 4- and 5-year-old boys and girls at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) in Pittsfield...
Feb 3, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt