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$1 Billion for Conservative Ideas $1 Billion for Conservative Ideas

Last year the Heritage Foundation celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary.

Apr 8, 1999 / Feature / David Callahan

Running on Empty Running on Empty

Texas Observer editor Louis Dubose estimates that his property tax will decrease by $130 in the year 2000.

Apr 8, 1999 / Feature / Lou Dubose

False History Lessons False History Lessons

Confronted with the inexplicable, policy-makers and pundits alike grope for the apt historical analogy. It's a natural human reaction.

Apr 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Kai Bird

The Case Against Inaction The Case Against Inaction

Sadly, some on the left are angrier about NATO's bombing than they are about the Serbian forces' atrocities, even though Milosevic's men have killed more in one Kosovan village ...

Apr 8, 1999 / Ian Williams and Bogdan Denitch

Front Page With a Human Face Front Page With a Human Face

Back in the fifties, before the term "new journalism" was coined, back when Gay Talese was writing minor obituaries for the New York Times, Tom Wolfe was a grad student at Yale a...

Apr 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Dan Wakefield

Political Chapter, Bible Verse Political Chapter, Bible Verse

After writing this, her fourth book on the Christian right, Sara Diamond donated fourteen years' worth of research--right-wing pamphlets, fliers and position papers--to the Unive...

Apr 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Abby Scher

If Poverty Is the Question… If Poverty Is the Question…

What does it mean to be poor in America? We can offer no single description of American poverty.

Apr 1, 1999 / Paul Wellstone

Enter Steve Forbes Enter Steve Forbes

In '96 poor Forbes was thought To be less zealous than he ought To be on things like baby-killing. So now he's showing that he's willing

Apr 1, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Srebrenica Revisited Srebrenica Revisited

During the Balkan war of 1912, Leon Trotsky was a war correspondent for a group of liberal Russian and Ukrainian newspapers.

Apr 1, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Better Ed Than Dead Better Ed Than Dead

Like the telephone before it, television has been an instrument for overcoming American loneliness.

Apr 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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