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George W. Bush has raised the stakes for Election 2000 by calling for the privatization of Social Security.

At 4 pm on Monday, May 22, Inigo Thomas posted an item in Slate wondering whether New York magazine’s Michael Wolff’s pan of Inside, the new website about the media not yet o

In the end, after months of waffling, I violated my principles and went to the Million Mom March for gun control–make that “common-sense gun control.” I’ve never liked maternalist politics: It r

The health news really walloped Rudy.
He dissed his wife, and in that mood he
Went strolling with his good friend Judi–
And found himself in deepest doodie.

Witness to History

The End of the Peace Process:

“A university,” poet John Ciardi acidly observed, “is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.” Add this contemporary counterpunch: A college is what a university becom

Maurice Isserman’s The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington evokes and will enrich the legacy of the last great American socialist in the tradition of Eugene Debs and Norman Thom

Jeremy Rifkin wants to rock the world of the jaded reader: He predicts that we’re entering a completely new–the final–stage of capitalism.

When the Pulitzer prizes were announced in April, surprisingly none of the hundreds of journalists covering the war in the Balkans last year were among the winners.

In June 1948 George Kennan, director of the State Department’s policy planning staff, drafted National Security Directive NSC-10/2.

“There are more than a million writers in the United States and they write more than 500,000 books each year, 90% of which never see publication.