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AFL-CIO Goes Global AFL-CIO Goes Global

Seattle changed many things, and one of them is American labor. Nothing lifts the spirit or one's vision like winning.

Mar 2, 2000 / William Greider

On Leo, Gio and Tobey On Leo, Gio and Tobey

It's a sign of age: Mention 1985, and I will sometimes think you're talking about last year.

Mar 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Infinite Jest Infinite Jest

Dave Eggers's memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, has been a bit too loudly hyped as an ironic tearjerker, and a media juggernaut has branded its author a tragic h...

Mar 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Elise Harris

Bush Family Conversations on Retaking the White House Bush Family Conversations on Retaking the White House

The first son seemed anointed, then The tide began to ebb. Did anybody ever ask, "So could we bring in Jeb?"

Mar 2, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Court Did What Helms Couldn’t: Trashed the ADA The Court Did What Helms Couldn’t: Trashed the ADA

The rogues in robes are on the move. US Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the leader of the pack, and the rest of the Court's right-wing majority have launched a ...

Feb 27, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Beat The Beat

PRISON PROTESTS: February 15 was a doubly significant date in the history of US criminal justice.

Feb 23, 2000 / John Nichols

Dog Days Dog Days

The first thing Jim Jarmusch asks you to do in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is to look up and down.

Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Stations of the Cross Stations of the Cross

Perhaps no contemporary writer has more singlemindedly mined a single vein of literary ore than E.L. Doctorow has New York City, especially the New York of the past.

Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Melvin Jules Bukiet

Why We Need a Care Movement Why We Need a Care Movement

We have the Bill of Rights and we have civil rights. Now we need a Right to Care, and it's going to take a movement to get it.

Feb 23, 2000 / Feature / Deborah Stone

California Youth Take Initiative California Youth Take Initiative

Four hundred teenagers converged outside the four-star Hilton hotel in San Francisco, then pushed inside the plush lobby with whoops and chants.

Feb 23, 2000 / Feature / Robin Templeton

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