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The Other Gay Media The Other Gay Media

AOL's buyout of Time Warner may have been this year's largest new media/old media merger, but in terms of sheer market consolidation, PlanetOut's purchase of Liberation Publicati...

Jun 22, 2000 / Feature / Richard Kim

Gato and Alex–No Safe Place Gato and Alex–No Safe Place

This is the story of Gato and Alex, two Salvadorans who as children became refugees from America's war in their homeland only to become rivals in America's gang war on the street...

Jun 22, 2000 / Feature / Tom Hayden

Bush’s Abortion Flip-Flop? Bush’s Abortion Flip-Flop?

Which current candidate for President reversed the abortion stand he espoused as a Congressional candidate in the seventies and adopted a position more acceptable to the mainst...

Jun 15, 2000 / David Corn

Independence: An Endangered Species? Independence: An Endangered Species?

The hopes of many for the birth and sustenance of independent web journalism took a body blow recently when all 140 employees of the APBnews.com crime news site were let go with ...

Jun 15, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman

Second-Wave Soundings Second-Wave Soundings

The women's liberation movement, as it was called in the sixties and seventies, was the largest social movement in the history of the United States--and probably in the world.

Jun 15, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Linda Gordon and Rosalyn Baxandall

Affirmative Retraction Affirmative Retraction

A century ago, as America made clear its retreat from the egalitarian gains of Reconstruction, two powerful voices set out differing agendas for how black Americans should respon...

Jun 15, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Philip A. Klinkner

Killing Him Lets Us Off the Hook Killing Him Lets Us Off the Hook

It's difficult to get over the idea that we failed Timothy McVeigh and that his execution fails us all. How deceptive a finale it is that leaves history neatly packaged in the ce...

Jun 12, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

McCullers: Canon Fodder? McCullers: Canon Fodder?

What makes an American writer? In today's narrow, backlashed literary market the chain of command is quite clear. The "greats" are Updike, Pynchon, Mailer, Bellow and Roth.

Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Schulman

Microsoft: Breaking Up Is Good to Do Microsoft: Breaking Up Is Good to Do

The pace of recent events made one of the most significant rulings in the history of American antitrust law seem like an anti-climax.

Jun 8, 2000 / Feature / Eben Moglen

Reno: Getting It From All Sides Reno: Getting It From All Sides

A week after she ordered federal agents to seize Elián González from his relatives in Miami, Republican critics were snarling, the Miami Cuban community was venti...

Jun 8, 2000 / Feature / Lars-Erik Nelson

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