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Feature
The Secret History of Lead
Research support was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute. Follow-ups: “Amplification,” June 19, 2000 and letters exchanges: “Lead–Balloons and Bouquets,” May 15, and “Lead-Letter Office,” July 3, 2000.
Jamie Lincoln Kitman
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Editorial
AFL-CIO Goes Global
Seattle changed many things, and one of them is American labor. Nothing lifts the spirit or one’s vision like winning.
William Greider
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Column
Cemetery Road
Progressives are really grasping at straws these days. First we’re supposed to get excited because Ralph Nader is running for President as a Green.
Katha Pollitt
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Bush Family Conversations on Retaking the White House
The first son seemed anointed, then
The tide began to ebb.
Did anybody ever ask,
“So could we bring in Jeb?”Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
From Crimson to Coal Seam
I first heard about Powers Hapgood while working at the United Mine Workers, an organization he had tried to change fifty years earlier.
Steve Early
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On Leo, Gio and Tobey
It’s a sign of age: Mention 1985, and I will sometimes think you’re talking about last year.
Stuart Klawans
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Infinite Jest
Dave Eggers’s memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, has been a bit too loudly hyped as an ironic tearjerker, and a media juggernaut has branded its author a tragic hero.
Elise Harris
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