Tilting at Rumor Mills Tilting at Rumor Mills
Now that the Constitution has been rescued and sexual McCarthyism discredited, perhaps the most durable legacy of the Lewinsky mess is the central location of the right-wing sl...
Feb 25, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman
Liberté, Égalité, Racisme? Liberté, Égalité, Racisme?
Scapegoating immigrants may be a transatlantic and pan-European phenomenon, but need Paris pander to those who want the tricolor to be monochrome?
Feb 24, 1999 / Feature / Daniel Singer
How Hitchens Suckered Himself How Hitchens Suckered Himself
Amid the shifting sands of Christopher Hitchens's accounts of and apologias for his bearing witness (deemed false witness by the man he still insists on calling his friend) again...
Feb 18, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Nonsilence = Death, Too? Nonsilence = Death, Too?
In seven novels and a collection of essays published since 1981, Sarah Schulman has methodically chronicled the history of her longtime neighborhood, Manhattan's East Village.
Feb 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mark J. Huisman
Affirmative Racism Affirmative Racism
Students across the country are gearing up to defend affirmative action on a national day of protest on February 24.
Feb 18, 1999 / Laura Flanders
Hillary for Veep? Hillary for Veep?
It is, depending on one's perspective, a delicious and redemptive scenario, a terrible nightmare or, if you are the escapist sort that hasn't yet cottoned to the hard reality of...
Feb 18, 1999 / Elaine Lafferty
When Cops Are Killers When Cops Are Killers
"Justice for Amadou Diallo!" has been the rallying cry throughout New York since four police officers gunned down the unarmed West African immigrant as he stood outside his apartme...
Feb 18, 1999 / Angela Ards
Policing Cyberspace Policing Cyberspace
Free speech, Oliver Wendell Holmes famously declared, ought not to extend to falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater. But what are the limits on shouting across the wide-open...
Feb 11, 1999 / The Editors
LA Story: Backlash of the Boosters LA Story: Backlash of the Boosters
What happens to a leading Marxist writer after he gets a MacArthur genius grant, a Getty Fellowship, and his new book hits number one on the nonfiction bestseller list?
Feb 4, 1999 / Feature / Jon Wiener
Going for the Gunmakers Going for the Gunmakers
A short walk from my home in New Haven stands the farm of that prototypical Connecticut Yankee, Eli Whitney. In 1798 Whitney hit on a bold new scheme: interchangeable parts for...
Feb 4, 1999 / Bruce Shapiro