Articles

The Principal Remaining Argument for an Extended Impeachment Trial The Principal Remaining Argument for an Extended Impeachment Trial

It might make sense to end it now, except That wouldn't show the managers respect. So even if their case now seems inert,

Feb 4, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

A Global Green Deal A Global Green Deal

Government can do a lot to save the planet, from altering tax policies to aiding nascent industries. The money is there; all it takes now is the will.

Feb 1, 1999 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard

The Great Pumpkin The Great Pumpkin

Some years ago, after I had completed a biography of the radical writer Josephine Herbst, I gave serious thought to writing a biography of Whittaker Chambers.

Jan 30, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Elinor Langer

The ‘Conscience Industry’ Says… The ‘Conscience Industry’ Says…

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Jan 28, 1999 / Alexander Cockburn and Our Readers

A Bend in the Color Line A Bend in the Color Line

Policy talk about a racialized "underclass" rests on social science research that often reproduces notions of racial difference, in an enormous tautology.

Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gerard Fergerson

Curious George Talks the Market Curious George Talks the Market

The epic, slow-motion crisis unraveling the global economic system continues to gather momentum, taking down Southeast Asia, Japan, Russia, now Brazil. Who's next?

Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / William Greider

History by the Letter History by the Letter

Whatever else the investigations of the President have uncovered, they have yielded thousands of sources--transcripts, letters, memos, audio- and videotapes--which Americans...

Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Louis P. Masur

Revenge of the Pod People Revenge of the Pod People

Nobody asked me to spend my weekend watching movies about alien invasions--so for all I know, I might have been acting on promptings from an otherworldly force.

Jan 28, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Theme Wars 2000 Theme Wars 2000

It was yet another Washington confab where Democrats gathered in a hotel to ponder their prospects.

Jan 28, 1999 / Feature / David Corn

A Cold War Over the Cold War? A Cold War Over the Cold War?

Yale University Press's Annals of Communism series, begun in 1995, is among the most ambitious and influential scholarly undertakings to address the historical role of Communi...

Jan 28, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman

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