Lennon’s MI5-FBI Files Lennon’s MI5-FBI Files
The headline in the Sunday Times of London was spectacular: Lennon Funded Terrorists and Trotskyists. It was also erroneous.
Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
A Theological Analysis of the South Carolina Primary A Theological Analysis of the South Carolina Primary
In Kennebunk, land of the Bushes,
The men of the cloth all wore tweed.
And one didn't meet any Christians
Like Robertson, Falwell and Reed.
Feb 23, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Liberal Media, RIP The Liberal Media, RIP
"Electrifying and oh-so vital." If that sounds like model Melania Knauss testifying about the sexual prowess of her former boyfriend, Donald Trump, guess again. It's the sound of...
Feb 23, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
California Youth Take Initiative California Youth Take Initiative
Four hundred teenagers converged outside the four-star Hilton hotel in San Francisco, then pushed inside the plush lobby with whoops and chants.
Feb 23, 2000 / Feature / Robin Templeton
Why We Need a Care Movement Why We Need a Care Movement
We have the Bill of Rights and we have civil rights. Now we need a Right to Care, and it's going to take a movement to get it.
Feb 23, 2000 / Feature / Deborah Stone
Stations of the Cross Stations of the Cross
Perhaps no contemporary writer has more singlemindedly mined a single vein of literary ore than E.L. Doctorow has New York City, especially the New York of the past.
Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Melvin Jules Bukiet
A Moderate Wouldn’t Make Appointments Like These A Moderate Wouldn’t Make Appointments Like These
It may be legal, but it's still a coup d'état. The nomination of Theodore B. Olson to be solicitor general, a position of such influence that it is often referred to as "t...
Feb 20, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Farewell, Steve Forbes Farewell, Steve Forbes
We mutter adieu now to Steve,
Who finally decided to leave.
We thought he might never be done
With buying his place in the sun.
Feb 16, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Education and the Election Education and the Election
By now most of us accept as almost inevitable the idea that education, meaning school reform and access to college, is at or near the top of the political agenda, both in the sta...
Feb 16, 2000 / Feature / Peter Schrag