Society

The Journal’s Russia Scandal The Journal’s Russia Scandal

Just before Christmas in 1997, as a tumultuous stock-market crisis ravaged emerging markets in every corner of the globe, readers of the Wall Street Journal were treated to some ...

Sep 16, 1999 / Feature / Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames

Ending Timor’s Ordeal Ending Timor’s Ordeal

Indonesia's scorched-earth compliance with international pressure on East Timor has left Dili, the capital, in ruins, displaced some 100,000 people to refugee camps under the con...

Sep 16, 1999 / The Editors

CBS-Viacom Nuptials CBS-Viacom Nuptials

An abbreviated version of this article appeared in the October 4, 1999 issue.

Sep 16, 1999 / Mark Crispin Miller

On the Possibility That Pat Buchanan Will Run as a Third-Party Candidate On the Possibility That Pat Buchanan Will Run as a Third-Party Candidate

Buchanan hints he's leaving.
The GOP says, "Stay!"
They fear that he'd be draining
The wacko vote away.

Sep 9, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Little Limbaughs and the Fire Next Time Little Limbaughs and the Fire Next Time

Residents of Skaneateles, New York, complained to visiting reporters about the Clintons' decision to make themselves relatively scarce on their recent vacation.

Sep 9, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman

A Haunted Journey A Haunted Journey

Poland’s Jewish community inspired Jewish life the world over. Now it is dead.  

Sep 9, 1999 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Students for Sale Students for Sale

Research support was provided by the Open Society Institute and the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.

Sep 9, 1999 / Feature / Steven Manning

Weird Science Weird Science

My first thought upon hearing that the Kansas state education board had removed evolution from its mandatory curriculum was: Go ahead! Be like that! Handicap your kids for life.

Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Buchanan Breaks Ranks Buchanan Breaks Ranks

In Washington, a city in which (to borrow a phrase from Virginia Woolf) all is gossip, corruption and chatter, the end-of-summer buzz has been about Pat Buchanan and whether he'll ...

Sep 2, 1999 / Doug Ireland and Micah L. Sifry

It’s Time for Realism It’s Time for Realism

Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: reponses by Peter Kornbluh, Mike Gray and Elliott Currie--and Massing's concluding thoughts.

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Michael Massing

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