Immaculate Contraception Immaculate Contraception
Enter the glass doors at 222 West 14th Street in New York City, and the chaos of traffic horns and tire-screeches, jackhammers and concentrated humanity recedes into a hush.
Jan 7, 1999 / Feature / Jennifer Baumgardner
Impeachment 1868 Impeachment 1868
The great objection which we, in common with so many others, had to impeachment when it was first talked of, was that it would either be or seem, not a criminal trial, but an...
Jan 7, 1999 / The Editors
Inaugurals Inaugurals
Twenty-six years ago, when the world was young, Jerry Brown began his reign in Sacramento and, even though I wrote some rude things about him at the time, life was certainly ...
Jan 7, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Republic on Trial Republic on Trial
The other day Linda Douglass, the Congressional correspondent for ABC News, commented to Peter Jennings that some "conservative" Republican senators were opposed to a plan th...
Jan 7, 1999 / Jonathan Schell
Floating Like a Butterfly… Floating Like a Butterfly…
In October in Las Vegas, Mike Tyson went before the Nevada Athletic Commission to ask it to reinstate his boxing license, which had been suspended after Tyson took a bite out o...
Jan 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / David Levi Strauss
The Euroleft, or, Who’s Afraid of Tina? The Euroleft, or, Who’s Afraid of Tina?
Europe, you are rightly told, is swinging to the left. In thirteen of the fifteen countries making up the European Union, the Social Democrats are now in office.
Dec 24, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Historic Question Department, 11th-Grade Division Historic Question Department, 11th-Grade Division
In every century, it seems, The Constitution's put to test. Important questions must be asked, And ours is, "Did he touch her breast?"
Dec 24, 1998 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Land of Dreams Land of Dreams
Anyone who decides to add his drop to the tidal wave of commentary on the impeachment of President Clinton must acknowledge, at the outset, a built-in difficulty.
Dec 24, 1998 / Jonathan Schell
Help Russia Help Russia
A fateful crossroads in American-Russian relations is being obscured by Bill Clinton's impeachment and war against Iraq.
Dec 24, 1998 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen
Holiday Celluloid Wrap-Up Holiday Celluloid Wrap-Up
What marvels of ill assortment the film distributors perform when they dump their products at the close of the year in hope of award nominations.
Dec 24, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans