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Texaco on Trial Texaco on Trial

Like virtually everyone else in San Carlos, Ecuador, Hugo Ureña never imagined that danger might lurk in the shiny black liquid that began appearing in the water near his ho...

May 13, 1999 / Feature / Eyal Press

Israel Diary Israel Diary

March 28: SECURITY (I) At moments, I wonder whether we've left America.

May 6, 1999 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry

Starr and Willey: The Untold Story Starr and Willey: The Untold Story

Amanda Elk, Rachel Margolis and David Schaenman provided research assistance. This article was supported in part by a Goldsmith Research Award from Harvard University's Shorenstein...

Apr 29, 1999 / Feature / Florence Graves and Jacqueline E. Sharkey

World Culture War World Culture War

In the past ten years, nationalist, communalist and religious fundamentalist social movements have surfaced all over the world, moving into the power vacuum created as local elit...

Apr 29, 1999 / Feature / Meredith Tax

Preventive Diplomacy Preventive Diplomacy

The US/NATO war in Kosovo marks a dramatic shift in the contours of global politics and domestic foreign policy discussions that is likely to have ramifications for years to come...

Apr 21, 1999 / Feature / William D. Hartung

NATO: At 50, It’s Time to Quit NATO: At 50, It’s Time to Quit

The war against Serbia is the Banquo's ghost of NATO's fiftieth-anniversary celebration in Washington.

Apr 21, 1999 / Feature / Benjamin Schwarz and Christopher Layne

The Education of Mike Milken The Education of Mike Milken

"'Gotta go to Moraga!' That's what everybody says," notes a visitor to the Oz-like place where the American educational revolution is being plotted: "That's the code word for go...

Apr 15, 1999 / Feature / Russ Baker

$1 Billion for Conservative Ideas $1 Billion for Conservative Ideas

Last year the Heritage Foundation celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary.

Apr 8, 1999 / Feature / David Callahan

Running on Empty Running on Empty

Texas Observer editor Louis Dubose estimates that his property tax will decrease by $130 in the year 2000.

Apr 8, 1999 / Feature / Lou Dubose

Whose Millennium? Whose Millennium?

We want to change the world, and, therefore, we must ponder why people now have less confidence in the possibility of moving beyond the reign of capital than their ancestors did m...

Apr 1, 1999 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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