Articles

Raising a Ruckus Raising a Ruckus

Somewhere amid the dancing sea turtles and bustling WTO bureaucrats, the angry anarchists and the Al Gore entourage, the striking steelworkers and the billionaires in town to sip...

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / John Nichols

The Battle in Seattle The Battle in Seattle

It's billed as the Battle in Seattle.

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage

The Heat in the Kitchen The Heat in the Kitchen

He poses like a tightrope walker, though one who's unexpectedly domestic and chubby.

Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Global Is as Global Does? Global Is as Global Does?

If one wants to understand what all the fuss is about as the World Trade Organization holds its ministerial conference, Ethan Kapstein's Sharing the Wealth: Workers and the World...

Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mark Levinson

Sen’s Sensibility Sen’s Sensibility

Some years ago, I had the good fortune to befriend an extended family who lived in a poor shantytown in the southern reaches of Santiago, Chile.

Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / James North

1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $10,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is administered mutually by th...

Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Marilyn Hacker

Signs of the Times Signs of the Times

When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band opened the opulent new Staples Center in LA on October 17, the Jersey Troubadour had a few choice words for those watching from the l...

Nov 18, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman

The People vs. the WTO The People vs. the WTO

The thousands of demonstrators who will greet the World Trade Organization delegates in Seattle on November 30 will have many voices but one message: The attempt to write a const...

Nov 18, 1999 / The Editors

Whose Trade? Whose Trade?

PARTICIPANTS IN THE FORUM Walden Bello, author of Dark Victory: The United States and Global Poverty (Food First), is executive director of the Bangkok-b

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / Various Contributors

Missing in Action Missing in Action

The candidates are constantly reviewed. The questions raised by analysts include: Will Pat Buchanan matter as a mauler?

Nov 18, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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