McCain McCain
So now comes forward John McCain,
A high-tech version of Gawain
When with his steed, a Navy plane.
He says he's forming his campaign
Jan 7, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
…Stinging Like a Bee …Stinging Like a Bee
Anyone with first- or even secondhand knowledge of the real-life subject must have wondered what strain of myopia possessed those producing the 1991 TV miniseries Separate bu...
Jan 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Immaculate Contraception Immaculate Contraception
Enter the glass doors at 222 West 14th Street in New York City, and the chaos of traffic horns and tire-screeches, jackhammers and concentrated humanity recedes into a hush.
Jan 7, 1999 / Feature / Jennifer Baumgardner
Impeachment 1868 Impeachment 1868
The great objection which we, in common with so many others, had to impeachment when it was first talked of, was that it would either be or seem, not a criminal trial, but an...
Jan 7, 1999 / The Editors
Inaugurals Inaugurals
Twenty-six years ago, when the world was young, Jerry Brown began his reign in Sacramento and, even though I wrote some rude things about him at the time, life was certainly ...
Jan 7, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Republic on Trial Republic on Trial
The other day Linda Douglass, the Congressional correspondent for ABC News, commented to Peter Jennings that some "conservative" Republican senators were opposed to a plan th...
Jan 7, 1999 / Jonathan Schell
Floating Like a Butterfly… Floating Like a Butterfly…
In October in Las Vegas, Mike Tyson went before the Nevada Athletic Commission to ask it to reinstate his boxing license, which had been suspended after Tyson took a bite out o...
Jan 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / David Levi Strauss
Our Bloodless Coup Our Bloodless Coup
People warn that a Senate impeachment trial will effectively shut down the government, involving as it would the Supreme Court and tying up the World's Greatest Deliberative ...
Dec 24, 1998 / Arthur Miller
The Dollar’s Day of Reckoning The Dollar’s Day of Reckoning
On January 1, 1999, the euro comes into existence.
Dec 24, 1998 / Feature / Lester C. Thurow
Historic Question Department, 11th-Grade Division Historic Question Department, 11th-Grade Division
In every century, it seems,
The Constitution's put to test.
Important questions must be asked,
And ours is, "Did he touch her breast?"
Dec 24, 1998 / Column / Calvin Trillin