Protest in Prague

Call it the Prague Fall: a season not only to test the democratic progress of Central Europe's most favored post-Communist nation but to find out whether a nonhierarchical, no...

Tamara Straus

In Fact…

HITTING HILLARY HARDER

Despite an agreement (steadily unraveling) to call off issue groups supporting him in the New York Senate race, Rick Lazio's loyal band of Hillary-hater...

The Editors

Oil on Political Waters

The old politics of oil has resurfaced to add a nervous flutter to Election 2000 and also to revive an enduring question of modern industrial life--what is the right price for...

William Greider

Pill of Choice

It took twelve years for the FDA to approve mifepristone--also known as RU-486--and most of that time had less to do with medicine than with the politics of abortion. Still,...

The Editors

Debaters’ Points

Little ventured, little gained--the first Gore-Bush debate featured both candidates at their usual. No breakouts, no bold thrusts. The face-off reflected the narrow paramete...

David Corn

Hey Guys, Be Careful What You Wish For

Why are white men so screwed up? If you can believe the polls, they identify by a huge margin with George W. Bush as one of them. What gives with these delusions of grandeur...

Robert Scheer

On the Fading of the Euro Dream

Calvin Trillin

Social Pseudoscience

Every five years the psychologist Judith Wallerstein updates her ongoing study of 131 children whose parents were going through divorce in Marin County, California, in 1971,...

Katha Pollitt

The Former Yugoslavia

During the Kosovo crisis of last year, it was commonplace if not routine to hear two mantras being intoned by those who had decided that "never" would be about the rig...

Christopher Hitchens

Letters

'THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY'

New York City

Christopher Hitchens is correct to point out that...

Burt Neuborne and Gabriel Schoenfeld and Wayne Owens and Nora Cusack