Rehnquist’s Revenge Rehnquist’s Revenge
William Rehnquist may be the most patient and unyielding radical ever to occupy high office in America.
Jul 1, 1999 / The Editors
On the Brink in Kashmir On the Brink in Kashmir
In early May, as the snows melted along the Karakoram Range, Indian troops on routine border patrols discovered that three strategic salients--Dras, Kargil and Batalik--in the In...
Jul 1, 1999 / Sumit Ganguly
Social Security for Women Social Security for Women
Despite the rosy projections and numerical alchemy that proponents employ to push their cause, privatizing Social Security won't build much wealth for women, and it will leave el...
Jul 1, 1999 / Trudy Lieberman
No Protection for Gays No Protection for Gays
There's a bill speeding its way through Congress that would shred much of the protection against discrimination provided by the dozens of local and state gay civil rights laws.
Jun 24, 1999 / Doug Ireland
Capitol Crimes Capitol Crimes
If only Columbine High School had posted the Ten Commandments next to its football trophies, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold would never have killed anyone.
Jun 24, 1999 / The Editors
America’s Disappeared America’s Disappeared
Nearly three years after the inauguration of welfare reform, Congress and the Clinton Administration would do well to reflect upon the admonition of Dorothy Day, the founder of t...
Jun 24, 1999 / Paul Wellstone
Showdown in Pristina Showdown in Pristina
The Russian contingent that declared its sovereignty over Pristina's airport is a stark sign of how deeply the Kosovo war has eroded the already deteriorating US-Russian relation...
Jun 17, 1999 / The Editors
Third Way–Dead End? Third Way–Dead End?
In the week preceding the European parliamentary elections, Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder produced a joint declaration, called "Europe, the third way, die neue Mitte" (t...
Jun 17, 1999 / Daniel Singer
CUNY Under Attack CUNY Under Attack
The politics of America's largest urban university have entered a restless, disordered, tumultuous period, a violent whirlpool from which it seems unable to extricate itself.
Jun 17, 1999 / Frederick S. Lane
A Hard Schooling A Hard Schooling
I come here and discover that you are merely another fraud in the city university system. Of the 150 receiving degrees today, you hold only 191 jobs. That is less than two jobs p...
Jun 17, 1999 / Jimmy Breslin