Pacifica Static Pacifica Static
The temblors around Ground Zero Berkeley, otherwise known as station KPFA, seemed to be diminishing, but there were lingering aftershocks.
Aug 5, 1999 / The Editors
Presidential Bidding Presidential Bidding
Let 1999 go down in electoral history as the year the "wealth primary"--a term coined by Jamin Raskin and John Bonifaz in law review articles to describe the period of early fund...
Aug 5, 1999 / The Editors
Bush’s Death Watch Bush’s Death Watch
In rather the same way as new movies are now "reviewed" in terms of their first weekend gross, new candidates have become subject to evaluation by the dimensions of their "war ch...
Aug 5, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Not for Me Not for Me
I think I'd rather not belong At this point to the Falun Gong. The exercises don't look easy, And doing them might make me queasy
Aug 5, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Gloves Off in the Garden State Gloves Off in the Garden State
The newly regilded dome of Trenton's state capitol may be shimmering under the intense summer sun, but if New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman's entourage is sweating bulle...
Aug 5, 1999 / Feature / Doug Ireland
Think Globally, Run Locally Think Globally, Run Locally
In the summer of 1997 Amory Houghton, the "moderate" six-term Republican Congressman who represents my home county in upstate New York, cast a crucial vote against the "no arms t...
Aug 5, 1999 / Feature / Caleb Rossiter
Old Masters Old Masters
For contemporary reactions from Nation critics to the films of Stanley Kubrick, follow these links: Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Shining...
Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Ex-Prom Queen Goes Home Ex-Prom Queen Goes Home
Thomas Wolfe wrote that you can't go home again. Alix Kates Shulman disagrees.
Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Beverly Gologorsky
Hitler’s Viennese Waltz Hitler’s Viennese Waltz
"Austria had many geniuses, and that was probably its undoing." --Robert Musil
Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
Chile Declassified Chile Declassified
On September 28, 1973, seventeen days after the bloody coup that brought Gen.
Jul 22, 1999 / Feature / Peter Kornbluh