Gates Sends a Message: A Wired World Gates Sends a Message: A Wired World
Bill Gates for President--next time. Now that we've gotten used to millionaires running for the presidency, why not a billionaire and a self-made one at that? At least Gates is...
Nov 7, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
‘If You’re Talkin’ Politics…’ ‘If You’re Talkin’ Politics…’
Washington, D.C. As I have traveled the country in this election year, many progressives have asked me whether I believe a vote for Ralph Nader is justified to promo...
Nov 2, 2000 / Ani DiFranco, Our Readers, and Rep. John Conyers
From the ‘Burbs to the ‘Hood From the ‘Burbs to the ‘Hood
Activists are finding success solving social problems on a regional basis.
Nov 2, 2000 / Feature / Jay Walljasper
Nader Voters: An Explanation Nader Voters: An Explanation
They thought they'd vote the Democratic slate, But somehow felt they needed something more. They finally found a candidate who was More sanctimonious than Albert Gore.
Nov 2, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
America and the World: The End of Easy Dominance America and the World: The End of Easy Dominance
In the more trying period ahead, a modest internationalism would fare best.
Nov 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Sherle R. Schwenninger
Anthropologists as Spies Anthropologists as Spies
Collaboration occurred in the past, and there’s no professional bar to it today.
Nov 2, 2000 / Feature / David Price
Don’t Blame Ralph Don’t Blame Ralph
If Gore loses the White House--and some of you reading this will know whether or not he did--he'll have no one but himself to blame. Readers of this page know I've been something...
Nov 2, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
A Postcard From Arad A Postcard From Arad
Arad, where I live, is a small, out-of-the-way town in the Negev desert, in southern Israel. There are Jews and Arabs living here, but so far it has been surprisingly quiet. Not ...
Nov 2, 2000 / Amos Oz
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
BEYOND WESTPHALIA One of the most remarkable--but unremarked, other than superficially--aspects of globalism is its erosional effect on the role of the state as we've known it s...
Nov 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Green Bee Green Bee
It was curled on the pavement, forehead to knees, as if it had died while bowing. Its stripes were citrine-yellow, and the black of a moonless starless, clea...
Nov 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Sharon Olds