Standardized Schools Standardized Schools
Wielding high-stakes tests, a noisy alliance of politicians, corporate CEOs and media pundits seems intent on standardizing education, proclaiming that every kid in America shoul...
Sep 30, 1999 / Susan Ohanian
Swatting at Art Swatting at Art
After successfully attacking jaywalkers with curbside barriers and adult-oriented businesses with zoning curbs, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is now waging war on two fronts at...
Sep 30, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Art Winslow
Money 2000 Money 2000
The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund provided research assistance.
Sep 30, 1999 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
Noise From Underground Noise From Underground
For more information about Positive Force, or to send donations to the Arthur S. Flemming Center, write to Positive Force, 3510 North 8th Street, Arlington, VA 22201. Checks should...
Sep 30, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Johnny Temple
Les Étrangers Les Étrangers
Sagesse (meaning "wisdom") LaBasse, the narrator of Claire Messud's second novel, The Last Life, is French-Algerian on her father's side and American on her mother's.
Sep 30, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Jay Parini
Their Myths and Ours Their Myths and Ours
Karen Rosenberg has taught Russian literary history in the United States and Austria.
Sep 30, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Karen Rosenberg
Mickey & the Peep Show Mickey & the Peep Show
In 1980, amid debates about "cleaning up" Times Square, New York City Mayor Ed Koch warned, "New York cannot and should not become Disneyland.
Sep 30, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Wayne Hoffman
Woman Off the Verge Woman Off the Verge
To die for art: No one takes the idea seriously anymore, and yet people do it every day.
Sep 30, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
A Euro Without a Europe A Euro Without a Europe
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting," writes Milan Kundera in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. But in the US media today, nothing ...
Sep 23, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman
A Demographic Analysis of the Reform Party A Demographic Analysis of the Reform Party
This party's what diversity is all about: There's no variety of wacko that's left out.
Sep 23, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin