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Media Matters Media Matters

"Politics and language," explains the dust jacket on the latest edition of Safire's New Political Dictionary, are "William Safire's two great and abiding interests." True, but to...

Jun 3, 1999 / Column / David Sarasohn

Morning-After Pill Ban Morning-After Pill Ban

Emergency contraception has the potential to revolutionize women's relationship to sex and birth control.

Jun 3, 1999 / Patricia Miller

No Impunity for Milosevic No Impunity for Milosevic

One of the notable achievements of the indictment issued on May 24 by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia--beyond fixing individual responsibility ...

Jun 3, 1999 / The Editors

Wall Street Analysts Do a Cautious Reassessment of Technology Offerings Wall Street Analysts Do a Cautious Reassessment of Technology Offerings

Perhaps one shouldn't simply glom On any stock that ends ".com"-- Except it's hard to tell just which Of them will make you filthy rich.

Jun 3, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

If Slobo, Why Not Bill? If Slobo, Why Not Bill?

I'm no fan of the International Criminal Tribunal, for the reasons Doug Lummis outlined in these pages on September 26, 1994, concluding reasonably enough that such a tribunal w...

Jun 3, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

‘I, Rigoberta…’ ‘I, Rigoberta…’

Middlebury, Vt.

May 27, 1999 / Our Readers

Another Course in Kosovo Another Course in Kosovo

There are principled differences within the progressive community about the war in Yugoslavia, including the use of ground troops.

May 27, 1999 / Kai Bird

White Shirt, Blue Collar White Shirt, Blue Collar

In 1992, as the United States wallowed in recession, presidential candidate Bill Clinton began to use the term "working middle class" to describe millions of Americans who were b...

May 27, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz

Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation Proclamation

Upon his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind some 2,000 pages of a never-finished second novel--more than forty years of fine-tuning what his literary executor, John F.

May 27, 1999 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard

Oppose a Wider War Oppose a Wider War

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright now reportedly endorses sending NATO troops into a "nonpermissive environment," a chilly euphemism for wreaking new havoc on the Balkans and...

May 27, 1999 / The Editors

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