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
Port Huron Piffle Port Huron Piffle
Tom Hayden's editorial essay ["The Liberals' Folly," May 24] was an offense to reason and an offense to principle. Why don't I begin with the principle?
May 27, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Welcome Out, Amy Fisher Welcome Out, Amy Fisher
We welcome out Ms. Amy Fisher And all of us sincerely wish her Success in any field she might embrace. We hope that she'll avoid the showy,
May 20, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
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
The United States Makes a Conditional Apology to China The United States Makes a Conditional Apology to China
A pity that our missiles went astray-- The kind of act we'd make a tort of. Sincerely, USA would like to say We're really very sorry, sort of.
May 13, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Humanitarian, All Too Humanitarian Humanitarian, All Too Humanitarian
Masses of people driven from their homes, murdered, maimed, raped, sent into panicked flight.
May 13, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Ulster Veto, Ulster Terror Ulster Veto, Ulster Terror
If Bill Clinton finds time to look up from the debacle of NATO's bombing of Serbia, he will find that Protestant holdouts in Northern Ireland are on the verge of denying him the ...
May 6, 1999 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Slobo in Prayer Slobo in Prayer
So Slobodan said prayers with Jesse. But prayed for what? Who knows? I'd guess he Would say, "So stop the bombs!" and then amens. Except when bombs no longer shower
May 6, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Belgrade Degraded Belgrade Degraded
Every now and then it really happens. A "military spokesman" emerges to prove that Joseph Heller was a realist, and Catch-22 a work of reportorial integrity.
Apr 29, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens