Running on Empty Running on Empty
Texas Observer editor Louis Dubose estimates that his property tax will decrease by $130 in the year 2000.
Apr 8, 1999 / Feature / Lou Dubose
False History Lessons False History Lessons
Confronted with the inexplicable, policy-makers and pundits alike grope for the apt historical analogy. It's a natural human reaction.
Apr 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Kai Bird
The Case Against Inaction The Case Against Inaction
Sadly, some on the left are angrier about NATO's bombing than they are about the Serbian forces' atrocities, even though Milosevic's men have killed more in one Kosovan village ...
Apr 8, 1999 / Ian Williams and Bogdan Denitch
Front Page With a Human Face Front Page With a Human Face
Back in the fifties, before the term "new journalism" was coined, back when Gay Talese was writing minor obituaries for the New York Times, Tom Wolfe was a grad student at Yale a...
Apr 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Dan Wakefield
Political Chapter, Bible Verse Political Chapter, Bible Verse
After writing this, her fourth book on the Christian right, Sara Diamond donated fourteen years' worth of research--right-wing pamphlets, fliers and position papers--to the Unive...
Apr 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Abby Scher
Rebellion at Pacifica Rebellion at Pacifica
One in five people in America lives within reach of the FM frequencies of the Pacifica radio network, which consists of stations in Berkeley, Los Angeles, New York, Washington an...
Apr 8, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Whose Millennium? Whose Millennium?
The left must offer rational solutions to global traumas—or lose to the right.
Apr 1, 1999 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Case Against Intervention in Kosovo The Case Against Intervention in Kosovo
President Clinton's address attempting to justify--after the fact--the US-led NATO bombing of Serbia should set off alarms.
Apr 1, 1999 / Feature / Benjamin Schwarz and Christopher Layne
Sodomy for the Masses Sodomy for the Masses
It's a good thing Bill and Monica held their trysts in the White House rather than just across the Potomac, in Falls Church or Arlington, Virginia.
Apr 1, 1999 / Feature / Debbie Nathan
All the President’s Man? All the President’s Man?
When Dick Morris announced that he would write a book to divert attention from his adventure with the toes of a call girl, George Stephanopoulos, the President's senior policy a...
Apr 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stanley I. Kutler