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