If Slobo, Why Not Bill? If Slobo, Why Not Bill?
I'm no fan of the International Criminal Tribunal, for the reasons Doug Lummis outlined in these pages on September 26, 1994, concluding reasonably enough that such a tribunal w...
Jun 3, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Wall Street Analysts Do a Cautious Reassessment of Technology Offerings Wall Street Analysts Do a Cautious Reassessment of Technology Offerings
Perhaps one shouldn't simply glom On any stock that ends ".com"-- Except it's hard to tell just which Of them will make you filthy rich.
Jun 3, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
No Impunity for Milosevic No Impunity for Milosevic
One of the notable achievements of the indictment issued on May 24 by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia--beyond fixing individual responsibility ...
Jun 3, 1999 / The Editors
Morning-After Pill Ban Morning-After Pill Ban
Emergency contraception has the potential to revolutionize women's relationship to sex and birth control.
Jun 3, 1999 / Patricia Miller
Media Matters Media Matters
"Politics and language," explains the dust jacket on the latest edition of Safire's New Political Dictionary, are "William Safire's two great and abiding interests." True, but to...
Jun 3, 1999 / Column / David Sarasohn
The Net That Binds The Net That Binds
This article is adapted from Andrew L. Shapiro's book about the politics of the Internet, The Control Revolution (PublicAffairs/Century Foundation). For more information visit www....
Jun 3, 1999 / Feature / Andrew L. Shapiro
Hot-Wiring High School Hot-Wiring High School
The International Student Activism Alliance has been run by and for high school students since its founding in 1996. Read this report by Liza Featherstone, originally published in ...
Jun 3, 1999 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
Master of All He Surveys Master of All He Surveys
As the presidential election of 1996 got under way, the press began to report that Bill Clinton's campaign strategy was heavily influenced by the advice of a shadowy figure who h...
Jun 3, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
Mouth of the Dying Day Mouth of the Dying Day
W.H. Auden observed that biographies "are always superfluous and usually in bad taste," but Edward Mendelson's book on him, Later Auden, is neither.
Jun 3, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Grace Schulman
A Greek Bearing Gifts A Greek Bearing Gifts
Before I ask you to see Eternity and a Day, I'd better explain something about its director and co-screenwriter, Theo Angelopoulos.
Jun 3, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans