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It’s Much Too Absurd to Be Real, So Let’s Make ‘Star Wars’ a Game It’s Much Too Absurd to Be Real, So Let’s Make ‘Star Wars’ a Game

Te Bush Administration is looking to revive Reagan's Star Wars system, but why not resurrect something better from his legacy?

Feb 13, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

The McCain Insurgency The McCain Insurgency

Every presidential contest in the past two decades has produced something of a quasi populist--a mad-as-hell candidate of the left, right or center who runs against the establish...

Feb 10, 2000 / David Corn

Farewell, Gary Bauer Farewell, Gary Bauer

x Farewell, adieu to Gary Bauer. We never thought that you'd be our Next President. Too small. Too sour. The countryside we'd have to scour

Feb 10, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Remembering in Black and White Remembering in Black and White

It may be my imagination, but this year Black History Month has seemed to present a more complicated range of memorials than in the recent past.

Feb 10, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

The Plutonium Files The Plutonium Files

Eileen Welsome, a mild-mannered 48-year-old reporter laboring away in obscurity for a tiny afternoon newspaper in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is no one's idea of a media Bigfoot.

Feb 10, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman

What They Do Know Can Hurt You What They Do Know Can Hurt You

This article is adapted by permission from Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (O'Reilly).

Feb 10, 2000 / Feature / Simson L. Garfinkel

Naipaul Writes Home Naipaul Writes Home

Many years ago, when I was about the age that V.S. Naipaul was when he departed Trinidad for England, I would borrow books by him from the library of an erstwhile colonial club i...

Feb 10, 2000 / Books & the Arts / S. Shankar

Business Creates Eco-Side! Business Creates Eco-Side!

Natural Capitalism is so informative and provocative--and so unfashionably optimistic about the future of the planet--that I wonder why everyone in public life is not reading it ...

Feb 10, 2000 / Books & the Arts / William Greider

To Her, With Love To Her, With Love

I like a filmmaker who walks you into a story.

Feb 10, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

China Spying Story: All the Excuses Fit to Print China Spying Story: All the Excuses Fit to Print

China Spying Story: All the Excuses Fit to Print 20010206 The words of the FBI inquisitor concerning his treatment of Wen Ho Lee couldn't have been more chilling: "It seemed l...

Feb 6, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

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