Society

The Shame of our Nursing Homes The Shame of our Nursing Homes

Research assistance was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.

Mar 11, 1999 / Feature / Eric Bates

Women’s Rights: As the World Turns Women’s Rights: As the World Turns

Does it seem to you that feminism this past year was just one long gargle over the meaning of Monica? That the biggest women's issue was whether oral sex is sex?

Mar 11, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

More Beds, More Money More Beds, More Money

Beverly Enterprises controls more than 60,000 nursing-home beds, more than any other company worldwide.

Mar 11, 1999 / Feature / Eric Bates

Feminine Mystiquers Feminine Mystiquers

For Danielle Crittenden, the "click" came when she was going to play tennis with her husband and a couple of acquaintances. She left her racket on one side of the court.

Mar 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein

On the Dismissal of Ken Bode On the Dismissal of Ken Bode

'Cause Washington Week in Review Had made insufficient ado, A jazzy new boss Gave Bode the toss, Not knowing a storm would ensue.

Mar 4, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Re: Juanita Broaddrick Re: Juanita Broaddrick

We will never know the truth behind Juanita Broaddrick's claim that Bill Clinton raped her in a Little Rock hotel room in l978.

Mar 4, 1999 / Katha Pollitt

Money Science = Ethics Problems on Campus Money Science = Ethics Problems on Campus

The third most dispensed drug in the United States is a thyroid medication called Synthroid.

Mar 4, 1999 / Feature / David Shenk

Tilting at Rumor Mills Tilting at Rumor Mills

Now that the Constitution has been rescued and sexual McCarthyism discredited, perhaps the most durable legacy of the Lewinsky mess is the central location of the right-wing sl...

Feb 25, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman

Liberté, Égalité, Racisme? Liberté, Égalité, Racisme?

Scapegoating immigrants may be a transatlantic and pan-European phenomenon, but need Paris pander to those who want the tricolor to be monochrome?

Feb 24, 1999 / Feature / Daniel Singer

How Hitchens Suckered Himself How Hitchens Suckered Himself

Amid the shifting sands of Christopher Hitchens's accounts of and apologias for his bearing witness (deemed false witness by the man he still insists on calling his friend) again...

Feb 18, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

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