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Our Century: The Seventies Our Century: The Seventies

Death of a Soldier

Dec 23, 1999 / Feature / The Editors

Our Century: The Eighties Our Century: The Eighties

Protest and Survive Ihave come to the view that a general nuclear war is not only possible but probable, and that its probability is increasing....

Dec 23, 1999 / Feature / The Editors

Our Century: The Nineties Our Century: The Nineties

The Character of Presidents The President we get is the country we get. With each new President the nation is conformed spiritually.

Dec 23, 1999 / Feature / The Editors

Seattle From the Seine Seattle From the Seine

"Le monde n'est pas une marchandise"--the world is not a commodity--proclaimed the large banner in the Parisian demonstration against the WTO.

Dec 15, 1999 / Daniel Singer

The ‘Single Standard’ in Kosovo The ‘Single Standard’ in Kosovo

Cambridge, Mass.

Dec 15, 1999 / Christopher Hitchens and Noam Chomsky

Joseph Heller Joseph Heller

Nelson Algren's 1961 review of Catch-22 is at www.thenation.com.

Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Hitchens

On the Latest Republican Debate On the Latest Republican Debate

I watched these presidential hopefuls join Together for debating in Des Moines, And many times I heard allegiance sworn To Jesus and to babies not quite born.

Dec 15, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Prattle on Seattle The Prattle on Seattle

The ideological rigidity that governs punditocracy trade debate transcends right/left dichotomies.

Dec 15, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman

(AP Photo / John Duricka, File)

John McCain’s Vietnam John McCain’s Vietnam

Though he suffered as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, he seems blind to the suffering inflicted on that nation by America's brutal and misguided war.

Dec 15, 1999 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss

Was Communism Reformable? Was Communism Reformable?

Never in history until the Soviet Union collapsed eight years ago had a great empire gone through such cataclysmic changes and accepted such staggering territorial losses without...

Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert V. Daniels

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