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Affirmative Retraction Affirmative Retraction

A century ago, as America made clear its retreat from the egalitarian gains of Reconstruction, two powerful voices set out differing agendas for how black Americans should respon...

Jun 15, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Philip A. Klinkner

Tea Time Tea Time

Everyone knows you can't film Remembrance of Things Past, so Raúl Ruiz did it.

Jun 15, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Killing Him Lets Us Off the Hook Killing Him Lets Us Off the Hook

It's difficult to get over the idea that we failed Timothy McVeigh and that his execution fails us all. How deceptive a finale it is that leaves history neatly packaged in the ce...

Jun 12, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Pacifica: The Last Word Pacifica: The Last Word

"Biased" was the term used most often in the scores of letters sent in response to John Dinges's "What's Going on at Pacifi

Jun 8, 2000 / Our Readers

Labor’s Love Lost Labor’s Love Lost

After the House passed President Clinton's China trade bill, Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer, issued a threat: "The 163 Republicans and 73 Democrats that voted for ...

Jun 8, 2000 / David Corn

Southern Lebanon Waits Southern Lebanon Waits

The final confrontation between Hezbollah and Israeli troops will stand alongside Anwar Sadat's 1977 arrival in Jerusalem and the extraordinary handshake (fatal for Yitzhak Rab...

Jun 8, 2000 / Robert Fisk

The Beat The Beat

ELECTION BEAT California State Senator Hilda Solis has become the first woman to receive a John Fitzgerald Kennedy Profile in Courage Award from the J

Jun 8, 2000 / John Nichols

A Rise in Unemployment Arrives on Schedule A Rise in Unemployment Arrives on Schedule

You cannot find a job? No cash is flowing? You haven't paid your bills, which have been growing? You'll never get the money you've been owing?

Jun 8, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

How a Caged Bird Learns to Sing How a Caged Bird Learns to Sing

This article is adapted from a lecture that was part of a series on self-censorship in the media given at New York University. The lecture series is being published this month in T...

Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard

Reno: Getting It From All Sides Reno: Getting It From All Sides

A week after she ordered federal agents to seize Elián González from his relatives in Miami, Republican critics were snarling, the Miami Cuban community was venti...

Jun 8, 2000 / Feature / Lars-Erik Nelson

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