The Politics of Food The Politics of Food
Case sawed shakily at his steak, reducing it to uneaten bite-sized fragments, which he pushed around in the rich sauce.... "Jesus," Molly said, her own plate empty, "gimme that.
Dec 9, 1999 / Feature / Maria Margaronis
Food Fight Comes to America Food Fight Comes to America
As the international uprising against genetically engineered (GE) foods continues to grow, the worst fear of US government and business officials is that the commotion abroad wil...
Dec 9, 1999 / Feature / Maria Margaronis
The Battle Beyond Seattle The Battle Beyond Seattle
A little broken glass in the streets of Seattle has transformed the World Trade Organization into a popular icon for the unregulated globalization that tramples human values on e...
Dec 9, 1999 / William Greider
Blowjobs and Snow Jobs Blowjobs and Snow Jobs
If the sixties were the age of the war reporter and the seventies the age of the investigative reporter, then the late nineties may go down in history as the age of the blowjob r...
Dec 2, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman
Stop-Time in the Levant Stop-Time in the Levant
It is remarkable to what extent almost anything having to do with the Middle East in this country--be it political, cultural, historical or even personal--is permeated by the tri...
Dec 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ammiel Alcalay
Prosecuting Innocence Prosecuting Innocence
Like countless parents, Cynthia Stewart of Oberlin, Ohio, is an ardent amateur photographer who loves to take pictures of her child.
Nov 25, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
How Now, Iron Johns? How Now, Iron Johns?
In Growing Up Absurd, his classic polemic on shortchanged youth, Paul Goodman remarks, parenthetically, that "the problems I want to discuss in this book belong primarily, in our...
Nov 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ellen Willis
‘Our’ Gide? ‘Our’ Gide?
Whenever Gide wrote or spoke about himself directly, which was not infrequently, he would insist that his wars within were to be traced to his very genes.
Nov 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith
Insider Enrichment Insider Enrichment
When the Clinton Administration privatized the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) last year, critics warned that the new company would seek to back out of a historic but...
Nov 25, 1999 / Ken Silverstein and Ian Urbina
Signs of the Times Signs of the Times
When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band opened the opulent new Staples Center in LA on October 17, the Jersey Troubadour had a few choice words for those watching from the l...
Nov 18, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman