The American Ascendancy The American Ascendancy
The turn of the millennium provided yet another occasion to celebrate a triumphant American Century.
Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Bruce Cumings
Humanitarian Intervention: A Forum Humanitarian Intervention: A Forum
Holly Burkhalter
Holly Burkhalter has more than twenty years' experience in the human rights field.
Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Various Contributors
A Green Foreign Policy A Green Foreign Policy
The power of the market, and of the giant corporations that dominate it, is the overriding political fact of our time.
Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
The New Civic Globalism The New Civic Globalism
During the eighties many activists in the United States and elsewhere embraced a simple but evocative slogan: "think globally, act locally." The message: In acting at the local l...
Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Kumi Naidoo
Hawking Vietnam Hawking Vietnam
With the twenty-fifth anniversary of the American withdrawal from Vietnam hard upon us, readers and viewers may well be treated to a multitude of reprises of the arguments surrou...
Apr 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Richard Falk
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
In Moby-Dick, in the chapter "The Fossil Whale," Ishmael proclaims: "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme." The theme of Joyce Carol Oates's Blonde--well, it'...
Apr 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Lawrence Joseph
Art of the Free and Brave Art of the Free and Brave
A woman I know once agreed to take a young Asian child to visit a school in New York, to which her distant parents considered sending her.
Apr 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Final Cut on Final Solution? Final Cut on Final Solution?
Since you presumably know the basics about the Holocaust--if you don't, I would suggest that a movie review is no place to learn them--I will jump to the main question about The ...
Apr 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
A17 and Counting A17 and Counting
The thousands of protesters who danced, marched and, in a few cases, got clubbed by police as they tried to shut down the meetings of the World Bank and the International Monet...
Apr 20, 2000 / The Editors
Welfare Movement Rises Welfare Movement Rises
The federal law that gave us "welfare reform" expires in September 2002.
Apr 20, 2000 / Frances Fox Piven