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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

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

America’s Debt to Blacks America’s Debt to Blacks

Well before the birth of our country, Europe and the eventual United States perpetrated a heinous wrong against the peoples of Africa and sustained and benefited from the wrong t...

Feb 23, 2000 / Randall Robinson

My Mafiaboy My Mafiaboy

Dear Mafiaboy,

Feb 23, 2000 / Naomi Klein

A Moderate Wouldn’t Make Appointments Like These A Moderate Wouldn’t Make Appointments Like These

It may be legal, but it's still a coup d'état. The nomination of Theodore B. Olson to be solicitor general, a position of such influence that it is often referred to as "t...

Feb 20, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Education and the Election Education and the Election

By now most of us accept as almost inevitable the idea that education, meaning school reform and access to college, is at or near the top of the political agenda, both in the sta...

Feb 16, 2000 / Feature / Peter Schrag

An Antisocial Idea An Antisocial Idea

Just because the ed whiz-biz politicians and the education bureaucrats have announced the end of "social promotion" doesn't mean that it ever existed--not for the past thirty yea...

Feb 16, 2000 / Feature / Susan Ohanian

Remembering in Black and White Remembering in Black and White

It may be my imagination, but this year Black History Month has seemed to present a more complicated range of memorials than in the recent past.

Feb 10, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

What They Do Know Can Hurt You What They Do Know Can Hurt You

This article is adapted by permission from Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (O'Reilly).

Feb 10, 2000 / Feature / Simson L. Garfinkel

China Spying Story: All the Excuses Fit to Print China Spying Story: All the Excuses Fit to Print

China Spying Story: All the Excuses Fit to Print 20010206 The words of the FBI inquisitor concerning his treatment of Wen Ho Lee couldn't have been more chilling: "It seemed l...

Feb 6, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

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