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Can Truth Outlast a Green Light for Media Mergers? Can Truth Outlast a Green Light for Media Mergers?

Should the corporate owners of newspapers like the Los Angeles Times or the New York Post be allowed to own television stations in the same city?

Jul 24, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Politics 2001: Bush Rules, Gore Drools Politics 2001: Bush Rules, Gore Drools

Where is Al Gore? Maybe he hasn't noticed, but all sorts of horrible things are happening under the Bush Administration--just as he predicted. Yet Gore has been totally silent. ...

Jul 17, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Flounder The Flounder

Long before I'd gone to a theater and lashed myself to a seat, I formed two expectations about The Perfect Storm.

Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Speed of Poetry The Speed of Poetry

When I visit the Poetry Publication Showcase, an annual display of the year's new poetry books at Poets House in Manhattan, I feel as if I've been granted a precious audience wit...

Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jan Clausen

A City That Worked A City That Worked

The New York of 1945 was the victorious city of the New Deal and World War II, one that can barely be glimpsed today beneath postmodern towers and billboards for dot-com enterprise...

Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Robert W. Snyder

MP3: It’s Only Rock and Roll and The Kids Are Alright MP3: It’s Only Rock and Roll and The Kids Are Alright

Once upon a time there was a struggling young California band. Its music was too loud and its image too unpolished for MTV.

Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Siva Vaidhyanathan

Pulling Back the Veil on Condor Pulling Back the Veil on Condor

For three years, from 1975 through 1977, the countries in what is known as the Southern Cone of South America underwent a human rights crime wave unprecedented before or since in...

Jul 13, 2000 / Feature / John Dinges

Media and Trade: A Love Story Media and Trade: A Love Story

On the final day of the Seattle demonstrations this past December, Peter Jennings of ABC's World News Tonight introduced the story with a sly aside: "The thousands of demonstrato...

Jul 13, 2000 / Feature / William Greider

Where’s Hoffa Driving the Teamsters? Where’s Hoffa Driving the Teamsters?

There was a time when the very word "Teamsters" evoked some pretty dark images: a bloated and notoriously corrupt union president, carried into the Teamsters convention on a gild...

Jul 13, 2000 / Feature / Marc Cooper

If Not Now… If Not Now…

There are a number of persuasive reasons to cast a vote for Ralph Nader in the fall, and a number of unpersuasive reasons, too.

Jul 13, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

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