A Bookmaker’s Tale A Bookmaker’s Tale
"The real money in books was going to be made not by writing or publishing but by buying and selling the publishing companies themselves." Thus Michael Korda writes in his new me...
Jun 10, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gayle Feldman
Reflections on the War Reflections on the War
Only the most dedicated spinmaster at the White House would have the audacity to claim victory as the outcome of the NATO war, especially at this stage.
Jun 10, 1999 / Feature / Richard Falk
Fast Times at Carver High Fast Times at Carver High
In Variety, where industry rumors congeal into analysis and analysis hardens to consensus, the news is bad for filmmakers like Alexander Payne.
Jun 10, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Kosovo Teach-In Kosovo Teach-In
In a sign of mounting opposition to the Clinton Administration's war policies, more than a thousand people participated in a five-hour teach-in on May 23 in Los Angeles.
Jun 10, 1999 / Various Contributors
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