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Feature
Rhyme and Resist
Organizing the Hip-Hop Generation
Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.
Angela Ards
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Editorial
Meanwhile, in Iraq…
NATO’s nightly airstrikes against Yugoslavia have ceased, but the periodic Anglo-American bombing of Iraq continues.
Dilip Hiro
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The Other Y2K Crisis
The presidential election is sixteen months away, but candidates are already fanning out across the land, garnering dollars and media exposure.
Stephen Gillers
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Ulster Must Not Say No
Northern Ireland’s peace process faces its gravest crisis since George Mitchell negotiated the Good Friday accord–graver even than after last summer’s bombing in Omagh by a small band of breaka
The Editors
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Column
Natural Born Killers
It didn’t take long for the press to connect 21-year-old white-supremacist multikiller Benjamin Smith with the all-purpose explanation du jour: violent entertainment, in this case the computer g
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
Spike’s Season
In Summer of Sam, Spike Lee has made a small, shapely drama about two young Italian-American couples in the Bronx.
Stuart Klawans
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Doctors’ Brains
It’s 9:45 Tuesday night, and the house lights have just come on after the final scene of Wit–the surprise Off Broadway hit about a terminally ill English professor and her experience as a
Suzanne Gordon
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Corporate Greenhouse
This book is aimed at business executives, but political reporters may have to read it too, now that Republican front-runner George W. Bush has decided that global warming is real after all.
Mark Hertsgaard
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Scandalocracy
Public scandals are America’s favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.
Robert Dallek
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Spy or Savior?
If Russia is not to dissolve like the Soviet Union or, worse yet, end in a cataclysm like Yugoslavia’s, it must negotiate peacefully across a welter of emotional claims to self-determination.
George Kenney
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