Articles

Mitterrand’s Legacy Mitterrand’s Legacy

François Mitterrand badly wanted to leave a mark, an imprint.

Feb 24, 1999 / Daniel Singer

Hope in a Cold Climate Hope in a Cold Climate

"It's not a revolt, Sire, or a revolution; it's the beginning of the end of the reign of big business, of capital, over the minds of the people," a courtier might have told Jacqu...

Feb 24, 1999 / Daniel Singer

When Cops Are Killers When Cops Are Killers

"Justice for Amadou Diallo!" has been the rallying cry throughout New York since four police officers gunned down the unarmed West African immigrant as he stood outside his apartme...

Feb 18, 1999 / Angela Ards

Room With a View Room With a View

A man locks his daughters in a one-room house for their first twelve years. The girls--twins--don't attend school; they don't play with other kids. They're never even given a ba...

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

Hillary for Veep? Hillary for Veep?

It is, depending on one's perspective, a delicious and redemptive scenario, a terrible nightmare or, if you are the escapist sort that hasn't yet cottoned to the hard reality of...

Feb 18, 1999 / Elaine Lafferty

Affirmative Racism Affirmative Racism

Students across the country are gearing up to defend affirmative action on a national day of protest on February 24.

Feb 18, 1999 / Laura Flanders

Nonsilence = Death, Too? Nonsilence = Death, Too?

In seven novels and a collection of essays published since 1981, Sarah Schulman has methodically chronicled the history of her longtime neighborhood, Manhattan's East Village.

Feb 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mark J. Huisman

So, Is It Back to Bowling Alone? So, Is It Back to Bowling Alone?

The scene with which The Good Citizen opens could have been lifted straight from a Norman Rockwell painting.

Feb 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp

Kenneth Starr in a car

Smoke in Starr’s Chamber Smoke in Starr’s Chamber

This essay is adapted from Thomas Ferguson’s “Blowing Smoke: Who Wants Clinton Impeached And Why,” for American Democracy in the Twenty-First Century, edited by William Crotty.

Feb 18, 1999 / Feature / Thomas Ferguson

The Dynasty of Mingus The Dynasty of Mingus

For the past year and a half, I've been spending most of my time between 1922 and 1979--the years of Charles Mingus's birth and death, since I'm writing his biography, due to be ...

Feb 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

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