Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation Proclamation
Upon his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind some 2,000 pages of a never-finished second novel--more than forty years of fine-tuning what his literary executor, John F.
May 27, 1999 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
White Shirt, Blue Collar White Shirt, Blue Collar
In 1992, as the United States wallowed in recession, presidential candidate Bill Clinton began to use the term "working middle class" to describe millions of Americans who were b...
May 27, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz
Another Course in Kosovo Another Course in Kosovo
There are principled differences within the progressive community about the war in Yugoslavia, including the use of ground troops.
May 27, 1999 / Kai Bird
Europe’s New Divide Europe’s New Divide
How can you doubt the progressive nature of NATO missiles when they are blessed by Europe's socialists and the radical heroes of the sixties?
May 20, 1999 / Daniel Singer
‘We Are All Albanians’ ‘We Are All Albanians’
The other day on the BBC news I saw a young, educated and eloquent Serbian woman speaking about the life of ordinary citizens under the NATO bombing. The Serbian citizens are af...
May 20, 1999 / Slavenka Drakulic
Iraqi Sideshow Continues Iraqi Sideshow Continues
On May 12 the Iraqi News Agency reported the deaths of twelve people, including two children, and 200 head of livestock near the northern city of Mosul, caused by American bombs.
May 20, 1999 / Dilip Hiro
Kosovars and Palestinians Kosovars and Palestinians
Many Jews have, understandably, seen parallels between the tragic events in Kosovo and their experiences of the Holocaust. But in fact, it is not a good parallel.
May 20, 1999 / Ghada Karmi
Smart Bombs Smart Bombs
There was quite an astonishing little item in the paper recently about the sort of thing that makes me glad I grew up in the inner city: i.e., the national proliferation of "assa...
May 20, 1999 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
No Sweat No Sweat
The bucolic, palm-studded campus of Stanford bears no resemblance to the old and gritty auto workers' summer camp at Port Huron, Michigan, where SDS was formed in 1962.
May 20, 1999 / Feature / Marc Cooper