Raising a Ruckus Raising a Ruckus

Somewhere amid the dancing sea turtles and bustling WTO bureaucrats, the angry anarchists and the Al Gore entourage, the striking steelworkers and the billionaires in town to sip...

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / John Nichols

States’ Rights and the WTO States’ Rights and the WTO

The World Trade Organization imposes obligations on state and local governments that limit their ability to protect consumers, establish environmental standards and undertake eco...

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / Dennis Kucinich

We Can Fight, We Can Win We Can Fight, We Can Win

See our chart lining up corporations and countries--together--in order of their economic clout.

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh, and Thea M. Lee

Missing in Action Missing in Action

The candidates are constantly reviewed.
The questions raised by analysts include:
Will Pat Buchanan matter as a mauler?

Nov 18, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Whose Trade? Whose Trade?

PARTICIPANTS IN THE FORUM

Walden Bello, author of Dark Victory: The United States and Global Poverty (Food First), is executive director of the Bangkok-b

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / Various Contributors

The People vs. the WTO The People vs. the WTO

The thousands of demonstrators who will greet the World Trade Organization delegates in Seattle on November 30 will have many voices but one message: The attempt to write a const...

Nov 18, 1999 / The Editors

Signs of the Times Signs of the Times

When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band opened the opulent new Staples Center in LA on October 17, the Jersey Troubadour had a few choice words for those watching from the l...

Nov 18, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman

1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $10,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is administered mutually by th...

Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Marilyn Hacker

Sen’s Sensibility Sen’s Sensibility

Some years ago, I had the good fortune to befriend an extended family who lived in a poor shantytown in the southern reaches of Santiago, Chile.

Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / James North