Articles

Holiday Celluloid Wrap-Up Holiday Celluloid Wrap-Up

What marvels of ill assortment the film distributors perform when they dump their products at the close of the year in hope of award nominations.

Dec 24, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Help Russia Help Russia

A fateful crossroads in American-Russian relations is being obscured by Bill Clinton's impeachment and war against Iraq.

Dec 24, 1998 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen

Land of Dreams Land of Dreams

Anyone who decides to add his drop to the tidal wave of commentary on the impeachment of President Clinton must acknowledge, at the outset, a built-in difficulty.

Dec 24, 1998 / Jonathan Schell

Historic Question Department, 11th-Grade Division Historic Question Department, 11th-Grade Division

In every century, it seems, The Constitution's put to test. Important questions must be asked, And ours is, "Did he touch her breast?"

Dec 24, 1998 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Euroleft, or, Who’s Afraid of Tina? The Euroleft, or, Who’s Afraid of Tina?

Europe, you are rightly told, is swinging to the left. In thirteen of the fifteen countries making up the European Union, the Social Democrats are now in office.

Dec 24, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Saving Private Malick Saving Private Malick

For twenty years, Terrence Malick has been absent from the screen, abandoning the world's filmoids to their own devices: to watch Badlands and Days of Heaven till the pr...

Dec 17, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

His Terrible, Swift Sword His Terrible, Swift Sword

You're familiar, of course, with the Wall Street Journal.

Dec 17, 1998 / Feature / Michael Tomasky

The Other Impeachment The Other Impeachment

Once before in American history, during the turbulent era of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War, a President was impeached by the House and tried before the Senate--Andre...

Dec 17, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner

Impeachment Madness Impeachment Madness

As the House of Representatives moved toward a historic decision--delayed by the bombing of Iraq--on whether to impeach the President, so-called moderate Republicans lamented that ...

Dec 17, 1998 / The Editors

Jesse ‘The Gov’ Ventura Jesse ‘The Gov’ Ventura

On January 4, 1999, Jesse Ventura will be sworn in as the new governor of Minnesota amid a media deluge not seen since the state hosted the Super Bowl.

Dec 17, 1998 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry

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