Articles

The Real Threat to Social Security The Real Threat to Social Security

Research assistance was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.

Jan 21, 1999 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss

Friends, Romans, Countrymen Friends, Romans, Countrymen

The networks are busy interviewing everyone with a law degree about what to expect from the impeachment trial of President Clinton.

Jan 21, 1999 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Justice Over-Decorated Is Justice Denied Justice Over-Decorated Is Justice Denied

Chief Justice Rehnquist now presides. He rules the chamber that decides If Clinton should remain or go. This role's important, that we know.

Jan 21, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Narnia Born Again Narnia Born Again

For 300 years, Christopher Wren's Sheldonian Theater has been the center of ceremonial life at Oxford.

Jan 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Michael Joseph Gross

Republic on Trial Republic on Trial

The most astonishing thing about the farcical and disgraceful--but extremely dangerous--impeachment proceedings in Washington is that they are happening at all. The country is at p...

Jan 14, 1999 / Jonathan Schell

Indiana Jones’s Temple of Doom Indiana Jones’s Temple of Doom

The recent arrest in Israel of eight apocalyptic cult members, who reportedly planned to take their own lives at the millennium or provoke authorities into killing them, rev...

Jan 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Bettina Drew

My Lost Weekend My Lost Weekend

By the time we got to firing off the water-cooled, tripod-mounted, 30-caliber machine gun at the NRA-run Ben Avery gun range a half-hour north of here on the Saturday after ...

Jan 14, 1999 / Feature / Marc Cooper

Duck Soup in Japan Duck Soup in Japan

Has no one informed Dr. Akagi that he's living in a complex and serious drama about the morale of Japanese citizens toward the end of World War II?

Jan 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The People vs. Larry Flynt? The People vs. Larry Flynt?

I didn't realize how much I was counting on Larry Flynt until I noticed I had spent Monday evening trying to find on the Web or TV a report of the much-anticipated news conf...

Jan 14, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

One Lesson of the Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton One Lesson of the Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton

The middle names we have are, as a rule, Obscure, pretentious, odd or just not cool. So someone named John Bloomingblaise McGill

Jan 14, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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