The Boys of Summer The Boys of Summer
To the list of movie characters who look back on their lives from the Beyond, add Lester Burnham, the 42-year-old, dead narrator of American Beauty. He is a murder victim--so it ...
Sep 23, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Our Prison Complex Our Prison Complex
This past winter both Edwin Meese and Gen. Barry McCaffrey expressed surprising misgivings about the current direction of the War on Drugs.
Sep 23, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Theodore Hamm
Ragtime, My Time Ragtime, My Time
As the youngest of five girls and two boys growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio, I was raised to believe that if I worked hard, was a good person and always told the truth, the world w...
Sep 23, 1999 / Feature / Alton Fitzgerald White
From Pacifica to the Atlantic From Pacifica to the Atlantic
The summer of 1999 will be remembered by many progressives as the time of the great KPFA lockout--when Pacifica's management tried to muzzle the nation's oldest community radio s...
Sep 23, 1999 / Robert W. McChesney
Out of East Timor Out of East Timor
On September 19, as the UN peacekeeping force was deploying in the ashes of Dili, our correspondent Allan Nairn was deported from West Timor to Singapore.
Sep 23, 1999 / The Editors
A Demographic Analysis of the Reform Party A Demographic Analysis of the Reform Party
This party's what diversity is all about: There's no variety of wacko that's left out.
Sep 23, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
A Euro Without a Europe A Euro Without a Europe
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting," writes Milan Kundera in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. But in the US media today, nothing ...
Sep 23, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman
‘Finality’ or Justice? ‘Finality’ or Justice?
Remember the bizarre daycare center "ritual abuse" trials of the eighties--the McMartin case in Los Angeles, the Little Rascals case in Edenton, North Carolina, the Kelly Micha...
Sep 18, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
CBS-Viacom Nuptials CBS-Viacom Nuptials
An abbreviated version of this article appeared in the October 4, 1999 issue.
Sep 16, 1999 / Mark Crispin Miller
Robbing Russia Robbing Russia
Finally, the rampant corruption at the core of Russia's post-Communist transformation is front-page news.
Sep 16, 1999 / The Editors