Protest in Prague Protest in Prague
Call it the Prague Fall: a season not only to test the democratic progress of Central Europe's most favored post-Communist nation but to find out whether a nonhierarchical, nonvi...
Oct 5, 2000 / Tamara Straus
On the Fading of the Euro Dream On the Fading of the Euro Dream
Momentum for the euro wanes. The krone is preferred by Danes. And recent surveys all have found That British voters love their pound. But, seeing this through New World eyes,...
Oct 5, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Debaters’ Points Debaters’ Points
Little ventured, little gained--the first Gore-Bush debate featured both candidates at their usual. No breakouts, no bold thrusts. The face-off reflected the narrow parameters ...
Oct 5, 2000 / David Corn
Pill of Choice Pill of Choice
It took twelve years for the FDA to approve mifepristone--also known as RU-486--and most of that time had less to do with medicine than with the politics of abortion. Still, th...
Oct 5, 2000 / The Editors
The Cartography of Death The Cartography of Death
Certainly...get him hanged! Why not? Anything--anything can be done in this country. --Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness So here we are, barely into the next century, and...
Oct 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Tom Engelhardt
Oil on Political Waters Oil on Political Waters
The old politics of oil has resurfaced to add a nervous flutter to Election 2000 and also to revive an enduring question of modern industrial life--what is the right price for oi...
Oct 5, 2000 / William Greider
The Former Yugoslavia The Former Yugoslavia
During the Kosovo crisis of last year, it was commonplace if not routine to hear two mantras being intoned by those who had decided that "never" would be about the right ...
Oct 5, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Mary Cheney Just Might Teach the Right a Lesson Mary Cheney Just Might Teach the Right a Lesson
Let's give up some applause for Dick Cheney for affirming in deed, if not words, that homosexuality is perfectly consistent with traditional family values. The decision for a Rep...
Oct 3, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
from ‘Mary in Old Age’ from ‘Mary in Old Age’
"I don't want to stay here. I want to stop it." Was "here" the nursing home? Was it the chair? The condition she was in? Her life? Life? The body? . . . ......
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Ferry
2000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 2000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations represents a life's work in poetry. The component volumes did not meet with fanfare, yet the work is brilliant with ...
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Mary Kinzie