Scandalocracy Scandalocracy
Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.
Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert Dallek
Spy or Savior? Spy or Savior?
If Russia is not to dissolve like the Soviet Union or, worse yet, end in a cataclysm like Yugoslavia's, it must negotiate peacefully across a welter of emotional claims to self-det...
Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney
Natural Born Killers Natural Born Killers
It didn't take long for the press to connect 21-year-old white-supremacist multikiller Benjamin Smith with the all-purpose explanation du jour: violent entertainment, in this ca...
Jul 8, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Wreck of the Primary Campaign The Wreck of the Primary Campaign
(A Republican Sea Chantey)
Jul 8, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Meanwhile, in Iraq… Meanwhile, in Iraq…
NATO's nightly airstrikes against Yugoslavia have ceased, but the periodic Anglo-American bombing of Iraq continues.
Jul 8, 1999 / Dilip Hiro
The Other Y2K Crisis The Other Y2K Crisis
The presidential election is sixteen months away, but candidates are already fanning out across the land, garnering dollars and media exposure.
Jul 8, 1999 / Stephen Gillers
Ulster Must Not Say No Ulster Must Not Say No
Northern Ireland's peace process faces its gravest crisis since George Mitchell negotiated the Good Friday accord--graver even than after last summer's bombing in Omagh by a sma...
Jul 8, 1999 / The Editors
Rhyme and Resist Rhyme and Resist
Organizing the Hip-Hop Generation Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.
Jul 8, 1999 / Feature / Angela Ards
Bridge Over Troubled Water Bridge Over Troubled Water
Legend has it that Potemkin, burdened by duties and melancholy, once neglected to order the packing up of one of his stage-set villages.
Jul 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Non-Silence of the Un-Lamblike The Non-Silence of the Un-Lamblike
After the success of Infinite Jest in 1996, David Foster Wallace took a vacation from fiction and, perhaps, from fans' expectations with A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Agai...
Jul 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Tom LeClair