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Features

Talking ‘Anarchy’ With Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is a longtime political activist, writer and professor of linguistics at MIT.

David Barsamian

Time to Rein in Global Finance

The financial crisis that collapsed Asian economies in mid-1997 and then bounced around the world was a distant sideshow to most Americans until it reached Wall Street.

William Greider

Jubilee 2000: Paying Our Debts

A massive natural disaster reminds us why people worldwide have been engaged by the issue of debt relief.

Robert W. Edgar

Raising a Ruckus: Students Take the Bus to DC

Students heading for DC are bringing more than a toothbrush and a change of underwear.

Jane Spencer

Free Trade and the ‘Starving Child’ Defense

Ajit Singh
Ajit Singh, who graduated from Punjab University and obtained his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, is professor of economics at Cambridge University.

Various Contributors

Editorials

Seattle Sequel in DC

"Seattle East," "A16," "Mobilization for Global Justice"--by whatever name you call it, a coalition of Teamsters and turtles, students and scholars, church, human rights, consumer and environment

the Editors

Microsoft: Judgment Day

Despite all the palaver, the denouement came quickly.

Eben Moglen

The Beat

From Seattle to Washington After last fall's anti-WTO protests rocked Seattle and the world, activists asked, "What next?" The answer is a week of teach-ins, lobbying, ma

John Nichols

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Columns

Extending the Elián González Policy

Yes, any Cuban kid would thrive right here.
At Disney World he'd surely have a ball.
And over there he lacks what we revere.
So maybe we should simply snatch them all.

Calvin Trillin

Still With Us

The editors of The New York Times Magazine had a good idea recently.

Eric Alterman

Books and the Arts

Talking ‘Anarchy’ With Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is a longtime political activist, writer and professor of linguistics at MIT.

David Barsamian

Her Own Lambs and Falcons

It really is about time we had the letters of Rebecca West.

Georgette Fleischer

Passages to India

In the early 1920s, E.M.

Amitava Kumar

Decline of the West

"I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided," said Sam Shepard, explaining his motivation for writing True West. "It's a real thing, double nature.

David Yaffe

He Took a Village

In the role of New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell--source and subject alike of Joe Gould's Secret--Stanley Tucci adopts the hesitant drawl of a displaced Southern aristocrat, who goe

Stuart Klawans

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April 24, 2000 Issue

Features

Noam Chomsky is a longtime political activist, writer and professor of linguistics at MIT.

The financial crisis that collapsed Asian economies in mid-1997 and then bounced around the world was a distant sideshow to most Americans until it reached Wall Street.

A massive natural disaster reminds us why people worldwide have been engaged by the issue of debt relief.

Students heading for DC are bringing more than a toothbrush and a change of underwear.

Ajit Singh Ajit Singh, who graduated from Punjab University and obtained his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, is professor of economics at Cambridge University.

Editorials

"Seattle East," "A16," "Mobilization for Global Justice"--by whatever name you call it, a coalition of Teamsters and turtles, students and scholars, church, human rights, consumer and environment

Despite all the palaver, the denouement came quickly.

From Seattle to Washington After last fall's anti-WTO protests rocked Seattle and the world, activists asked, "What next?" The answer is a week of teach-ins, lobbying, ma

Subscribe Today and Save $129!

Columns

Yes, any Cuban kid would thrive right here. At Disney World he'd surely have a ball. And over there he lacks what we revere. So maybe we should simply snatch them all.

The editors of The New York Times Magazine had a good idea recently.

Books and the Arts

Noam Chomsky is a longtime political activist, writer and professor of linguistics at MIT.

It really is about time we had the letters of Rebecca West.

In the early 1920s, E.M.

"I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided," said Sam Shepard, explaining his motivation for writing True West. "It's a real thing, double nature.

In the role of New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell--source and subject alike of Joe Gould's Secret--Stanley Tucci adopts the hesitant drawl of a displaced Southern aristocrat, who goe

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Ajit Singh
Ajit Singh, who graduated from Punjab University and obtained his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, is professor of economics at Cambridge University.

Yes, any Cuban kid would thrive right here.
At Disney World he'd surely have a ball.
And over there he lacks what we revere.
So maybe we should simply snatch them all.