Society

Bush’s Death Watch Bush’s Death Watch

In rather the same way as new movies are now "reviewed" in terms of their first weekend gross, new candidates have become subject to evaluation by the dimensions of their "war ch...

Aug 5, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Pacifica Static Pacifica Static

The temblors around Ground Zero Berkeley, otherwise known as station KPFA, seemed to be diminishing, but there were lingering aftershocks.

Aug 5, 1999 / The Editors

Prescription: Protest Prescription: Protest

Neil Shulman, MD, first started seeing patients at Grady in 1969. For more information or to help, contact [email protected].

Jul 22, 1999 / Feature / Neil Shulman MD

Remembering the 1993 Healthcare Debate While Listening to the 1999 Healthcare Debate Remembering the 1993 Healthcare Debate While Listening to the 1999 Healthcare Debate

The single-payer system, it was said, Has faults that go beyond the fact it's Red: If any faceless bureaucrat decreed That surgery the doctor says you need

Jul 22, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Pricks Up Your Ears Pricks Up Your Ears

In the August 9/16 issue of The Nation, Alexander Cockburn discusses Pacifica's alleged plans to use "scab" programming. KPFK General Manager Mark Schubb has told The Nation that h...

Jul 22, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Pacifica on the Brink Pacifica on the Brink

Marc Cooper hosts a daily drive-time show on Pacifica's KPFK.

Jul 22, 1999 / Marc Cooper

Ex-Prom Queen Goes Home Ex-Prom Queen Goes Home

Thomas Wolfe wrote that you can't go home again. Alix Kates Shulman disagrees.

Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Beverly Gologorsky

Doctors’ Brains Doctors’ Brains

It's 9:45 Tuesday night, and the house lights have just come on after the final scene of Wit--the surprise Off Broadway hit about a terminally ill English professor and her exper...

Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Suzanne Gordon

Rhyme and Resist Rhyme and Resist

Organizing the Hip-Hop Generation Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.

Jul 8, 1999 / Feature / Angela Ards

Natural Born Killers Natural Born Killers

It didn't take long for the press to connect 21-year-old white-supremacist multikiller Benjamin Smith with the all-purpose explanation du jour: violent entertainment, in this ca...

Jul 8, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

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