Society

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

CCA, the Sequel CCA, the Sequel

James Neal is a short, muscular man with close-cropped hair who has spent the past twelve years behind bars for armed robbery.

May 20, 1999 / Feature / Eric Bates

Texaco on Trial Texaco on Trial

Like virtually everyone else in San Carlos, Ecuador, Hugo Ureña never imagined that danger might lurk in the shiny black liquid that began appearing in the water near his ho...

May 13, 1999 / Feature / Eyal Press

On the Virtual Picket Line On the Virtual Picket Line

The unfortunate flaw in From the Telegraph to the Internet is its title, which suggests a highly specialized account of an industry when in fact it is a deeply moving narrative ...

May 13, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Marcus G. Raskin

The Guns of Littleton The Guns of Littleton

Dylan Klebold "is intelligent enough to make any dream a reality," a juvenile court counselor wrote last year.

Apr 29, 1999 / Bruce Shapiro

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