Society

Blowjobs and Snow Jobs Blowjobs and Snow Jobs

If the sixties were the age of the war reporter and the seventies the age of the investigative reporter, then the late nineties may go down in history as the age of the blowjob r...

Dec 2, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman

Stop-Time in the Levant Stop-Time in the Levant

It is remarkable to what extent almost anything having to do with the Middle East in this country--be it political, cultural, historical or even personal--is permeated by the tri...

Dec 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ammiel Alcalay

Prosecuting Innocence Prosecuting Innocence

Like countless parents, Cynthia Stewart of Oberlin, Ohio, is an ardent amateur photographer who loves to take pictures of her child.

Nov 25, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

How Now, Iron Johns? How Now, Iron Johns?

In Growing Up Absurd, his classic polemic on shortchanged youth, Paul Goodman remarks, parenthetically, that "the problems I want to discuss in this book belong primarily, in our...

Nov 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ellen Willis

‘Our’ Gide? ‘Our’ Gide?

Whenever Gide wrote or spoke about himself directly, which was not infrequently, he would insist that his wars within were to be traced to his very genes.

Nov 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith

Insider Enrichment Insider Enrichment

When the Clinton Administration privatized the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) last year, critics warned that the new company would seek to back out of a historic but...

Nov 25, 1999 / Ken Silverstein and Ian Urbina

Signs of the Times Signs of the Times

When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band opened the opulent new Staples Center in LA on October 17, the Jersey Troubadour had a few choice words for those watching from the l...

Nov 18, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman

The Cable Guise The Cable Guise

Ten years ago, as Hungary was roiling with democratic protests, the country had two television channels, both controlled by the state.

Nov 11, 1999 / Feature / Mark Schapiro

Media, Inside Out Media, Inside Out

The recent CBS-Viacom-bination--at $37 billion, the largest media deal ever--mirrored previous purchases, like Disney's acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC and Time Warner's taking...

Nov 11, 1999 / Feature / Rory O’Connor

Indonesian Improvisation Indonesian Improvisation

Armed militias had forced most journalists to flee from East Timor by September 7, the day then-President B.J. Habibie and General Wiranto of Indonesia declared martial law for t...

Nov 11, 1999 / Feature / Suzanne Charlé

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