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Enter Steve Forbes Enter Steve Forbes

In '96 poor Forbes was thought To be less zealous than he ought To be on things like baby-killing. So now he's showing that he's willing

Apr 1, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Srebrenica Revisited Srebrenica Revisited

During the Balkan war of 1912, Leon Trotsky was a war correspondent for a group of liberal Russian and Ukrainian newspapers.

Apr 1, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Enter Mrs. Dole Enter Mrs. Dole

Elizabeth Dole is all perfection. She shoots one take, without exception. She drives her staff so no step's spared To get an ad-libbed speech prepared.

Mar 18, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Paving the Way Paving the Way

Since you weren't bent all out of shape By hearing Bill accused of rape, It's now assumed that it won't trouble you To hear some dirt about George W.

Mar 11, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Women’s Rights: As the World Turns Women’s Rights: As the World Turns

Does it seem to you that feminism this past year was just one long gargle over the meaning of Monica? That the biggest women's issue was whether oral sex is sex?

Mar 11, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

On the Dismissal of Ken Bode On the Dismissal of Ken Bode

'Cause Washington Week in Review Had made insufficient ado, A jazzy new boss Gave Bode the toss, Not knowing a storm would ensue.

Mar 4, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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

If Hillary Ran If Hillary Ran

Says super-tough guy Giuliani: To fight this mighty Amazon, he Is salivating. Yes, to beard her He'd get real tough (and even weirder).

Feb 25, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Ocalan, the Kurds and History Ocalan, the Kurds and History

The best day's work that Lenin ever did was to publish the secret treaties that the Bolsheviks found in the archives of the czarist regime.

Feb 25, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

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

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