Society

Depression Confession Depression Confession

How will we know when women have achieved equality? Male politicians will all be bachelors.

Jun 10, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

The Officer and the Diva The Officer and the Diva

This spring, two important chapters in the surprising story of Israeli gay and lesbian politics concluded.

Jun 10, 1999 / Feature / Joshua Gamson

Morning-After Pill Ban Morning-After Pill Ban

Emergency contraception has the potential to revolutionize women's relationship to sex and birth control.

Jun 3, 1999 / Patricia Miller

Media Matters Media Matters

"Politics and language," explains the dust jacket on the latest edition of Safire's New Political Dictionary, are "William Safire's two great and abiding interests." True, but to...

Jun 3, 1999 / Column / David Sarasohn

The Net That Binds The Net That Binds

This article is adapted from Andrew L. Shapiro's book about the politics of the Internet, The Control Revolution (PublicAffairs/Century Foundation). For more information visit www....

Jun 3, 1999 / Feature / Andrew L. Shapiro

Hot-Wiring High School Hot-Wiring High School

The International Student Activism Alliance has been run by and for high school students since its founding in 1996. Read this report by Liza Featherstone, originally published in ...

Jun 3, 1999 / Feature / Liza Featherstone

Post-Littleton Gun Vote in the Senate Post-Littleton Gun Vote in the Senate

When guns became the issue of the day, Republicans, as is their custom, put Their party right behind the NRA, And shot themselves quite badly in the foot.

May 27, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

A Bronx Tale A Bronx Tale

You're 19, single, on welfare. You breast-feed your baby because you know breast is best. When the baby fails to gain weight, your mother says not to worry, you were even smaller...

May 27, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation Proclamation

Upon his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind some 2,000 pages of a never-finished second novel--more than forty years of fine-tuning what his literary executor, John F.

May 27, 1999 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard

Smart Bombs Smart Bombs

There was quite an astonishing little item in the paper recently about the sort of thing that makes me glad I grew up in the inner city: i.e., the national proliferation of "assa...

May 20, 1999 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

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