What Monsanto Knew What Monsanto Knew
In a small brick house strung year-round with Christmas lights, behind curtains made of flowered sheets, Jeremiah Smith is listening to his favorite preacher on the radio.
May 11, 2000 / Feature / Nancy Beiles
The NRA Wants You The NRA Wants You
Research assistance was provided by the Elections 2000 Fund of the Nation Institute.
May 11, 2000 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
Underground Against the Taliban Underground Against the Taliban
The atrocities of the Afghan Taliban toward women have been widely reported in the Western press: women banned from work; forbidden to leave their homes unless shrouded in the bu...
May 11, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Second Thoughts on the Family Values Front Second Thoughts on the Family Values Front
Republicans, observing young González Removed at night, thought they could take some solace From hearings showing Reno as a baddie.
May 11, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Battle of Vieques The Battle of Vieques
Puerto Ricans’ opposition to the Navy’s suffocating presence had been brewing long before the sit-in.
May 11, 2000 / Ed Morales
Cheney Is an Oaf on Conservation Cheney Is an Oaf on Conservation
His considerable portfolio reflects his identity as a Texas oilman and a friend to oil-rich Saudis.
May 8, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Circus Minimus Circus Minimus
According to Gibbon, the emperor Commodus spent the early years of his reign "in a seraglio of three hundred beautiful women and as many boys, of every rank and of every province...
May 3, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Copyright as Censorship Copyright as Censorship
The British government, increasingly desperate to silence a former MI5 intelligence officer who has been campaigning to expose government misconduct, has sued him and a London ne...
May 3, 2000 / Feature / Jon Wiener
The Details of Life The Details of Life
This article is adapted from Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope (Crown).
May 3, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Kozol
Gore’s Oil Money Gore’s Oil Money
Research assistance was provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute.
May 3, 2000 / Feature / Ken Silverstein