The ‘Nightmare Scenario’ The ‘Nightmare Scenario’
Y2K is coming, ready or not. Right now, mostly not.
Feb 25, 1999 / Feature / Kevin Sanders
Flying the Iraqi Skies Flying the Iraqi Skies
Having hit Saddam Hussein where it hurts--in the Republican Guard barracks, military intelligence headquarters and other strategic components of his regime's power base--duri...
Feb 25, 1999 / Dilip Hiro
Oscar Who? Oscar Who?
Although the producers of the Academy Awards ceremony like to boast that a billion people watch their broadcast, I take comfort in knowing that another 5 billion do not.
Feb 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Albright’s State Deportment Albright’s State Deportment
Flirtatious and ferocious at the same time, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stamps the world stage over Kosovo, threatening fire from heaven if Serbian strongman Slobodan ...
Feb 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
Ocalan, the Kurds and History Ocalan, the Kurds and History
The best day's work that Lenin ever did was to publish the secret treaties that the Bolsheviks found in the archives of the czarist regime.
Feb 25, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
And Now–Social Security And Now–Social Security
Social Security's future is the first, and gargantuan, legislative issue of the post-Monica era.
Feb 25, 1999 / The Editors
If Hillary Ran If Hillary Ran
Says super-tough guy Giuliani: To fight this mighty Amazon, he Is salivating. Yes, to beard her He'd get real tough (and even weirder).
Feb 25, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Tilting at Rumor Mills Tilting at Rumor Mills
Now that the Constitution has been rescued and sexual McCarthyism discredited, perhaps the most durable legacy of the Lewinsky mess is the central location of the right-wing sl...
Feb 25, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman
Twilight of the Czar Twilight of the Czar
President Clinton recently paid a visit to a fallen czar. The blundering Yeltsin may be clinging to his throne, but his effective reign came to a close on August 17, a date to re...
Feb 25, 1999 / Daniel Singer