Testing, Testing Testing, Testing
With education among the electorate's top priorities, the phrase "higher standards" has become ubiquitous in political campaigns across the country.
May 18, 2000 / Feature / Gary Orfield and Johanna Wald
The NRA Wants You The NRA Wants You
Research assistance was provided by the Elections 2000 Fund of the Nation Institute.
May 11, 2000 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
What Monsanto Knew What Monsanto Knew
In a small brick house strung year-round with Christmas lights, behind curtains made of flowered sheets, Jeremiah Smith is listening to his favorite preacher on the radio.
May 11, 2000 / Feature / Nancy Beiles
Gore’s Oil Money Gore’s Oil Money
Research assistance was provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute.
May 3, 2000 / Feature / Ken Silverstein
The Details of Life The Details of Life
This article is adapted from Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope (Crown).
May 3, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Kozol
Copyright as Censorship Copyright as Censorship
The British government, increasingly desperate to silence a former MI5 intelligence officer who has been campaigning to expose government misconduct, has sued him and a London ne...
May 3, 2000 / Feature / Jon Wiener
The New Student Movement The New Student Movement
This article is part of the Haywood Burns Community Activist Journalism series.
Apr 27, 2000 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
Hip-Hop Politics on Campus Hip-Hop Politics on Campus
"You have no idea how much love I got for this," says David Jamil Muhammad, referring to his role as a student organizer of "Hip-Hop Generation--Hip-Hop as a Movement." The confe...
Apr 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Johnny Temple
A Foreign Policy for the Common Citizen A Foreign Policy for the Common Citizen
A quarter-century after the end of the Vietnam War, and eleven years after the collapse of the Berlin wall, it has become commonplace to say that we Americans have no consensus o...
The American Ascendancy The American Ascendancy
The turn of the millennium provided yet another occasion to celebrate a triumphant American Century.
Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Bruce Cumings