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December 20, 1999 Issue

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  • Feature

    Public Citizen No.1

    CORRECTION (from the Dec. 27 issue): In Micah L. Sifry’s “Public Citizen No. 1” [Dec. 20], Carl Mayer, although he is among those urging Nader to run, was incorrectly identified as a member of the Draft Nader Committee. Also, the town of Amherst is in Wisconsin, not Michigan.
    A version of this article also appeared in Salon magazine.

    Micah L. Sifry

  • Editorial

    Street Fight in Seattle

    After the Battle in Seattle one thing is certain: The next WTO confab will be held somewhere like Singapore or Jakarta.

    Marc Cooper

  • Ulster Says Maybe

    Ireland’s struggle to extricate itself from the British Empire contributed early and disproportionately to the political vocabulary of the twentieth century: colonial domination and guerrilla res

    The Editors
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  • Books & the Arts

    Back to Beginnings

    Cheick Oumar Sissoko, who lives and works in Mali, has looked around and noticed that his fellow filmmakers in sub-Saharan Africa are few–“and due to our financial need (great with regard to our

    Stuart Klawans


  • Algren’s Question

    He would hang his coat neatly over the back of his chair in the leaden station-house twilight, say he was beat from lack of sleep and lay his head across his arms upon the query-roo

    Dan Simon

  • Stop-Time in the Levant

    It is remarkable to what extent almost anything having to do with the Middle East in this country–be it political, cultural, historical or even personal–is permeated by the triumphalist vision

    Ammiel Alcalay
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