Media and Trade: A Love Story Media and Trade: A Love Story
On the final day of the Seattle demonstrations this past December, Peter Jennings of ABC's World News Tonight introduced the story with a sly aside: "The thousands of demonstrato...
Jul 13, 2000 / Feature / William Greider
MP3: It’s Only Rock and Roll and The Kids Are Alright MP3: It’s Only Rock and Roll and The Kids Are Alright
Once upon a time there was a struggling young California band. Its music was too loud and its image too unpolished for MTV.
Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Siva Vaidhyanathan
Miranda Rights Reread Miranda Rights Reread
It is impossible to overstate the importance--politically and legally--of the Supreme Court's recent 7-to-2 reaffirmation of its 1966 ruling in Miranda v. Arizona.
Jun 29, 2000 / The Editors
Want to Know a Secret?–There Are No Secrets Want to Know a Secret?–There Are No Secrets
These days, the once highly revered nuclear weapons lab at Los Alamos is the butt of jokes and investigations over the latest revelation--that top-secret files supposedly locke...
Jun 27, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Do As We Say, Not As We Do Do As We Say, Not As We Do
What's wrong with this picture?: Slobodan Milosevic will be dragged before an international war crimes tribunal while Robert McNamara tours American college campuses touting hi...
Jun 26, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Moral Property of Women The Moral Property of Women
Since 1988, when it became available in France, American women have been waiting for mifepristone.
Jun 22, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Search and Destroy Search and Destroy
Gay-Baiting in the Military Under 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Jun 22, 2000 / Feature / Doug Ireland
The Other Gay Media The Other Gay Media
AOL's buyout of Time Warner may have been this year's largest new media/old media merger, but in terms of sheer market consolidation, PlanetOut's purchase of Liberation Publicati...
Jun 22, 2000 / Feature / Richard Kim
Gato and Alex–No Safe Place Gato and Alex–No Safe Place
This is the story of Gato and Alex, two Salvadorans who as children became refugees from America's war in their homeland only to become rivals in America's gang war on the street...
Jun 22, 2000 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Independence: An Endangered Species? Independence: An Endangered Species?
The hopes of many for the birth and sustenance of independent web journalism took a body blow recently when all 140 employees of the APBnews.com crime news site were let go with ...
Jun 15, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman